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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 10 (January 1, 1938.)

“Shibli” Listens In

“Shibli” Listens In.

Mr. Johannes C. Andersen has been appointed organiser for New Zealand Authors' Week, which is to be held some time in April.

The New Zealand Journal of Agriculture is to be modernised into a big farming journal, Mr. H. I. Forde, a well-known New Zealand journalist, is editor.

Victor Lloyd has been asked by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, to prepare a volume of New Zealand one-act plays. Such a collection has not yet been published from New Zealand writers although one was recently published in Australia from Australian authors.

Two new editors of periodicals published in Wellington who have proved their worth are O. White (“Radio Record”) and Jock Gillespie (“The Monocle”). Both publications have made big strides in reading and illustration appeal and general lay-out.

“Murder By Twelve,” the composite detective story on which a dozen Wellington writers have been engaged for several months past, has been completed. It will probably be published abroad.

Thomas Bracken's “Not Understood” (1906 edition) failed to bring even a bid of one shilling at a recent auction sale in Wellington.

A good copy of the first edition of Satchell's “The Greenstone Door,” brought only 6/- at a book auction sale in Wellington recently.