THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 11

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL

The feature of the July Australian Journal is the opening of a three-part serial, “Forced Landing.” by C. E. Buckingham, the Australian aviatorauthor. It concerns an air-pilot who, flying a party over the Pacific, 3 -s forced to land on an uninhabited atoll. His passengers include the girl whom, a year before, he had jilted for what, at the time, he had considered sufficient reason. Mr. Buckingham’s yarn starts well enough to intrigue the most hardened serial reader. Other excellent yarns arc those by A ance Palmer, Murray Tonkin, Xavier Herbert, Elizabeth Powell. Laura Willard, Rex Grayson, Frank Gauge, Sydney Mann, Walter Smyth and Gavin Casey. The Journal contains the usual knitting. needlework, fashion, radio and children’s sections, while an interesting departure is the first of a series of articles on “Modern Dancing” by the well-known Melbourne dancing teacher, Dorothy Gladstone. Fifty pounds is offered" as prize-money in a cricketaverage forecasting competition. Tinted illustrations in the modem manner brighten the pages of the issue, which is wrapped in one Esther Paterson s best cover designs. It is difficult to imagine better value lor sixpence. ~