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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 3 (July 1, 1930)

S.A.R. and H. Magazine

page 22

S.A.R. and H. Magazine.

For twenty-five years, first as Editor and later as Managing Editor, Mr. Tatlow has guided and guarded the interests of the “South African Railways and Harbours Magazine,” which may well be described as a child of his brain. The journal was started by him in Natal in 1905, as an outcome of a Railwayman's Lecture and Debating Society, in which he was the moving spirit, and it has continued to make a monthly appearance ever since, although its title underwent a change in the early part of its existence.

When Childhood's Dreams Come True. (Photo, W. W. Stewart.) Mr. Jonas's interesting model locomotive shewn at the New Zealand Society's Model and Experimental Engineers' Exhibition, held recently in Auckland. (The driver, who looks fascinated with his charge, is Master Ken Jonas.)

When Childhood's Dreams Come True.
(Photo, W. W. Stewart.)
Mr. Jonas's interesting model locomotive shewn at the New Zealand Society's Model and Experimental Engineers' Exhibition, held recently in Auckland. (The driver, who looks fascinated with his charge, is Master Ken Jonas.)

To-day, the magazine is well to the fore, amongst monthly publications of like character (it is the world's largest of its kind), and, without the Administration being directly responsible, it acts as a Service organ throughout the country's transportation system, publishing matter calculated to be of educative value to its readers, which include many quite outside railway spheres, and also in other countries.

Details of the Administration's progress are disseminated through the journal's pages, and reports of the happenings and developments in overseas and other transportation circles are garnered and reported through the magazine. It provides what is an ideal medium for the publication of the General Manager's Bulletin, and through its South African travel articles, it influences its readers in the Union towards travel within their own country, and further directs the attention of overseas people to the wealth of attractions and possibilities that South Africa possesses.

When he retires, Mr. Tatlow will have controlled the publication of three hundred odd issues of the magazine—for special numbers have commemorated certain outstanding happenings in our history—and it is questionable whether any other individual person in South African journalistic circles can claim such a record, of which the subject of this tribute may very justifiably be proud.

The retiring Publicity Chief has done a great deal for the cause of the poster artist in this country, for he has consistently influenced municipalities and other public bodies to advertise the amenities of their respective places through the media of pictorial designs exhibited on hoardings. Thus, pictorial poster art has developed considerably in the Union during the last decade or two.