TRIALS OF TRAIN TRAVELLERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 4

TRIALS OF TRAIN TRAVELLERS.

—-♦ — : . ON ROTORUA EXPRESS. (By Teleeraph.-Bpoclal CorreasondenU Auckland, February 7. Railway passengers have an enemy ia the, dust which yesterday enveloped tha; Rotorua express like n mantle. Tho fine pumice sand with which the permanentway is ballasted found its way ill over •everything and everybody.- When th« train arrived at Morrinsvillo Junction, the original colour of the carriages was visible only in parts, and inside on the cushions and ledges,there was a thick deposit, reminiscent of a gold battery in tho days of dry crushing. In the refreshment car one was forcibly reminded of the tnjth.of the saying that "a man. must eat a peck of dirt in his lifetime," biit it was rather trying to have to eat it all at once. There is some' talk ■ of. ballasting .the Rotorua section with scoria ,in place of pumice, but this is:still-i:long way off, and it is rather surprising the Department cannot evolve-some"'Scheme to abate the nuisance. Tho least ther could- dp mould be to have the carriages (lusted at Morrinsville, where the-worst of the ordeal is over, or supply cloths for the purpose to those who do not care - 'about sitting in a dust heap for a hundred and sevonty-ouo miles at a stretch.