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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 1, 1927)

Our Magazine. — After Twelve Months-Does it Hit the Target?

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Our Magazine.
After Twelve Months-Does it Hit the Target?

The copies of the New Zealand Railways Magazine are highly appreciated by the High Commissioner and his staff. A file of them is kept in the reading-room of this office, and attracts much attention from New Zealand readers. It is also a most useful medium for keeping us up-to-date on all railway topics.

H. W. Drew,
Publicity Officer,
High Commissioner's Office, London.

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My attention was recently directed to your excellent magazine which our library has added to its list of similar periodicals. After reading the December and January numbers I felt that they were of such interest that you would be glad to know that their contents were appreciated, even though by one so far from “the scene of operations.”

You have a very fine publication, which should be heartily appreciated by its readers for the value of its material.

(Capt.) S. D. Ashford,
Senior Signal Engineer,
Interstate Commerce Commission,
Washington, D. C.

Several attempts have been made in New Zealand to provide a magazine which would grip the imagination of the public generally and which would become a permanent institution in the Dominion. Several attempts have been made, but with one or two exceptions they have been foredoomed to failure. Strangely enough it was left for the New Zealand Railway Department to provide a journal which, in a remarkably short space of time leapt into fame, and because of its high standard and interesting nature each successive issue is largely sought by those whose good fortune it is to have become acquainted with it.

Stratford “Evening Post.”

I have read with great pleasure the New Zealand Railways Magazine. I know no magazine dealing with a phase of our industrial life, its superior. The paper, printing, illustrations and general “get up”—as it is called—are all excellent, and the literary work is also first class. I hope it may long continue and be read by our railway workers.

The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stout,
K. C. M. G., LL. D., M. L. C.

I cannot refrain from sending you a word of congratulation on the February issue of your Magazine in honour of the Royal visit. It is a production that anyone might be proud of, but considering the narrow limits within which you must work, I consider you are entitled to the very highest praise.

The Magazine is not only interesting, but educative, and I have had much pleasure in reading it from cover to cover. The illustrations too, are very good.

J. Sclater, Traffic Manager for New Zealand and Australia, Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Sydney.

The Magazine from cover to cover is full of good matter. When one has run through it, picking here and there at the good things therein, one can only express appreciation in the word—splendid. But, above all, what I like about the Magazine is its open heartedness, its brotherhood of purpose, what our Gallic neighbours would call its esprit de corps. It makes me feel that here we see a glimpse of that grander brotherhood of man which shall yet “progress in beauty over all the earth.”

The late Mr. J. T. Ward, Wanganui Observatory.

From H. E. Auckland, Onehunga, Auckland:—

Being an employee of the New Zealand Railways I receive the New Zealand Railways Magazine every month, but I had the misfortune to lose them when I was shifting into a new house. I want to know if you could send me a copy of every one published, and I will be only too glad to pay for them. I thought so much of them.

[Mr. Auckland is an apprentice in the Newmarket Workshops. Needless to say, we had pleasure in supplying him with complimentary copies of the magazines lost.—Ed. “N. Z. R. M.”]

From Mr. W. S. Dale, Normal School, Auckland:—

I beg to acknowledge the arrival of your excellent magazine, and desire to offer you my sincere congratulations upon the splendid synopsis of British History which is, I think, a summary worthy of greater publicity.

Fine souvenir number.

Franklin “Times.”

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