PAEROA STATION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5487, 14 October 1929, Page 2

PAEROA STATION.

NEW REFRESHMENT ROOMS. OPENED ON FRIDAY. The new refreshment rooms at the Paeroa railway station were opened to the public on Friday last. The main refreshment hall is large, and everything connected with it is thought out on the time and laboursaving basis, so that a rush of passengers can be expeditiously and conveniently met. One novel time-saving device is the way the cups are ranged' undei- the counter, each shelf containing 12 cups, and the shelves themselves sliding ones, so that all a waitress need do is to pull out the shelf and the cups are produced, obviating the lengthy and unsatisfactory process of groping blindly for them. In a rush moment the advantage of this new method can easily be realised. Practically all down one side of the room runs the counter, from which all the usual quick meal comestibles are served, together with tobacco, confections, fruits, etc. Four tables are available, although nothing in the nature of elaborate sit-down meals will be served. An artistic and im-posing-looking fireplace occupies one end, a door on the other leading to the kitchen, etc. The design of the whole room is very pleasant, flowers and prettily coloured curtains setting off the woodwork.

The inside offices have already been explained in this paper, so it suffices to say that the ham room is now >eplendent with imposing rows of hams, awaiting conversion into the sandwiches so beloved by train voyagers, and the milk and store rooms are filled. The kitchen, with its brightlypolished copper kettles and boilers, gives a particularly homely touch. The sink-boards are tiled, and curved where they meet the wall to ensure the utmost cleanliness, there being no cracks where scraps of food can lodge and become objectionable. Outside the building, across the front of it, are little shelves, where a passenger after seeing his desires can rest his cup and plate.

Altogether, the whole building reflects great credit on the Railway Department, whose representative, Mr H. A. Evenden, was in Paeroa superintending the final touches during the latter part of the week. The refreshment room now brings Paeroa in line with the larger New Zealand stations and junctions, and is a completed step towards the PaeroaPokeno link completing the East Coast main trunk railway.