The New Zealand Railways Magazine is on sale through the principal booksellers, or may be obtained post-free for 6/- per annum.

Employees of the Railway Department are invited to forward news items or articles bearing on railway affairs. The aim of contributors should be to supply interesting topical material tending generally towards the betterman of the service.

In all cases where the Administration makes announcements through the medium of this journal the fact will be clearly indicated.

The Department does not identify itself with any opinions which may be expressed in other portions of the publication, whether appearing over the author's name or under a nom de plume.

Short stories, poetry, pen-and-ink sketches, etc., are invited from the general public upon New Zealand subjects.

Payment for short paragraphs will be made at 2d. a line. Successful contributors will be expected to send in clippings from the Magazine for assessment of the payment due to them.

The Editor cannot undertake the return of MS.

All communications should be addressed to The Editor, New Zealand Railways Magazine, Wellington.

I hereby certify that the publisher's lists and other records disclose that the circulation of the “New Zealand Railways Magazine” has not been less than 20,000 copies each issue since July, 1930.

The Department's accounts show that the sales of the Magazine during the year ended 31st March, 1936, were more than treble those of the previous financial year.

Deputy-Controller and Auditor-General. 26/5/36.

Railway Bus Record.

A record has been established by Messrs. M. Pettifer and A. Rowell, of Napier, who made the longest railway bus trip ever undertaken in New Zealand in driving buses which carried 25 Maoris each from Ruatoria, East Coast, to Waitara, Taranaki, and back for the unveiling of the memorial to Sir Maui Pomare.

The trip took 13 days and covered nearly 1500 miles. “We slept in all sorts of queer places during the journey,” said one of the drivers. “One of them was the verandah of a Maori meeting-house out of Dannevirke. We slept on bales of straw there. There was only one family living there, and they had to cater suddenly for 250 visitors at one time. In spite of the early hour of the morning and the large number of guests, a wonderful breakfast was served.”

A Popular Stationmaster.

Before his departure for Blenheim last month, Mr. M. Coutts, stationmaster at Rlecarton for the past five years, was met by a gathering of local merchants and other clients of the Railways Department, and made the recipient of a presentation as a token of their esteem and goodwill. Appreciative reference was made by several speakers to the excellent service always given by Mr. Coutts, who had a fine reputation for courtesy, promptness and efficiency.