The builders are now putting the finishing touches on the new station at Auckland, and, in the course of a few months, this fine northern railway terminal will be officially opened. Some of the chief features and facilities of the new building are described in the following article.

Auckland's new railway station proves beyond doubt that Government buildings can be a combination of architectural beauty and usefulness.

Even now, when the interior scaffolding is being removed, one glimpses vistas of strong vital arches and immense spaces, which lend dignity to the future rendezvous of thousands of animated travellers.

It is not too early to judge the final result, although the clang of hammer and shovel and trowel makes mechanical music where formerly riveting machines, concrete drills, and lumbering winches occupied the attention of hundreds of workmen. Most of the essentials have been completed, and by September the last of the dust will have been cleared away, the tiles and counters dusted, and the brasses polished in readiness for alert porters and their parcels, a gold-braided stationmaster, and the rest of a busy and efficient staff.

It has been an immense task, building the finest railway station in New Zealand, and one of the best in the Southern Hemisphere. But it has been worth it, for this station is an architectural masterpiece and a monument worthy of a great State Department, and the City of Auckland.