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.