PRAISE FOR RAILWAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 8

PRAISE FOR RAILWAYS

VISITOR'S OPINIONS

',By Telegraph.) (Special to -'The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Praiso for New Zealand's train service, considering the difficulties of construction and running in a country such as this Dominion, was bestowed by Mr. John Ellis, who has been in the service of the London and North Eastern Railway all his life. ,

Mr. Ellis, who only recently retired from the position of District Superintendent in Glasgow, said that Now Zealand's train service was wonderful, considering the hilly nature of most of the country and the tortuous routes followed. The way the trains travelled over rugged country and by circuitous lines ho thought really remarkable. One thing that could not but impress overseas travellers on the railways was that the country traversed was so picturesque. Incidentally, he remarked that New Zealand towns and cities were the cleanest he had seen on his travels, which included England, the United States, and Canada.

He thought the Dunedin railway station the finest in New Zealand, in his opinion it was a bettor working station than Auckland's. It was laid out and arranged in the same fashion as Waverley Station, Edinburgh.

The number of autograph books Sir Charles Kingsford Smith lias placed before him averages over 150 a day when he is on a flying tour. He now estimates that he has signed about 225,000 autograph books.