The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 2 (June 1, 1931)

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [section]
  • Railways and Road Competition
  • Contents
    • [section]
    • Main Trunk Express Journey — High Praise from Distinguished Pianist
  • [title page]
• • The Melting Pot
    • [section]
    • “My Lady Nicotine”
    • Advertising Pays
    • Bound Copies of the Magazine
  • General Manger's Message — The Change In Control. — As it Affects the Public
    • [section]
    • As it Affects the Staff
  • Board to Control the Railways — A Directorate of Five Members
  • Members of the — Railway Board of Control
  • Members of the Board of Control — Biographical Notes
    • [section]
    • Sir James Gunson
    • Mr. Edward Newman
    • Mr. Daniel Reese
    • Mr. G. W. Reid
  • Wit and Humour
    • Mrs. Malaprop
    • So Very Simple
    • Domestic War
    • Tommy's Knowledge
    • Exploiting an Asset
  • Current Comments
    • Overseas Praise for Cover Design of “N.Z.R. Magazine.”
    • In Emergency
  • Our London Letter
    • [section]
    • Signalling and Safety
    • Automatic Train Control
    • Rail Cars for Branch Lines
    • Germany's Novel Rail Car
    • Increasing the Power of Existing Locomotives
  • A Famous Railway Museum — Interesting Exhibits
    • [section]
    • The Guard's Red Coat
    • Practical Northerners
    • A Tip for Grumblers
    • The Emergency Bell
    • The Pride of the Show
    • Stephenson's Letters
    • “A Moving University.”
  • Lakeland and Storyland — The Charm of a Rotorua Cruise — by James Cowan
    • [section]
    • A Morning Sail
    • The Bays of Rotoiti
    • The Glory of the Cliffs
    • A Sylvan Spa
    • The Rimu Avenue
    • On Mokoia Island
    • A Fruitful Isle
    • The “Waka Maori.”
    • The Fishermen
    • From the Island Top
    • The Holy Isle
  • Your Own Railway
  • Policing the Railways — Life in a Signal Box — by A. Oman Heany
    • [section]
    • Silent Sentinels
    • An Unfailing Sniper
    • Checkmate
    • The Elusive Loophole
    • The Conjurer's Box
    • Small Appropriation Brings Big Returns
  • The Sunny South Pacific — Carefree Lives of Happy Tongans, and Other Impressions of an Island Cruise — by C. E. Wheeler
    • [section]
    • Native Customs in Suva
    • Like a Grand Organ
    • Where Nature is Truly Bounteous
    • Picturesque Vavau
    • In and About Western Samoa
    • The Life-Blood Of A Nation
  • By Those Who Like Us
  • Wheels And Whizzdom — by Ken Alexander
    • Live Wires and Dead Marines
    • The One-Way Mind
    • The I.O.U.'s Have It
    • The Roaring Forties
    • For Wheel or Whoa
    • Technical Education for Railwaymen
  • The New Zealand School of Wrestling — Up-To-Date Gymnasium Opened At Wellington. — Promoting the Interests of a Noble Game
  • World Affairs — by E. Vivian Hall
    • [section]
    • Job for Economists
    • Overtaxed Politicals
    • Sufferers Seek Relief
    • War no Remedy
    • Smouldering Fires
    • Debts and Despair
    • Lenders’ Self-surgery
    • An All-round Writing-down?
    • Action at Last!
    • Rail Travel in England and New Zealand
  • Pioneering Value of the Railways
  • Our Women's Section — by Sheila G. Marshall
    • Woman's Place In The Home
    • Your Skin in Winter
  • Fastest in the World — Famous Express Locomotive
  • Modern Progress in Telephony — Siemen's Neophone — British Post Office places order for 200,000 Instruments
    • [section]
    • The Subscriber's Instrument
  • A Fascinating New Zealander — (Chironomus Zealandicus.) — by H. Collett

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