Mr. J. S. Hunter, Official Secretary of the New Zealand Railways, recently returned after a year spent overseas, and has kindly supplied, for the information of our readers, the following summary of railway impressions gained during the course of his itinerary. He travelled by rail through the United States and Canada, and on many of the railway systems of Great Britain and the Continent.

So much has been written, by railwaymen who have preceded me on tours abroad, that I am somewhat loath to follow the usual course of narrating experiences from a purely railway point of view, fearing that the probable reiteration may have a tendency to bring about a slackening of interest in the valuable material appearing in each issue of the Magazine dealing with current railway matters in the Motherland.

In the first place I would like to say that my mission abroad was not primarily a railway one, but, naturally, my close association with railway affairs during recent years was an incentive to study—so far as time permitted—the methods followed in countries I passed through.