TRAIN THAT COST £20.000.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 129, 7 January 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

TRAIN THAT COST £20.000.

COM FOU'l' FOR WOINDED SOLDIERS.

Between 4,1)00 and 0.000 people recent'y paid their shillings at Kustuu Station to see a wonderful train wli.cu, by now. is proving the last word in luxury and comfort for our wounded horot■-. The shillings paid went to provulo comforts tor the railway troojw (Royal Knginecs) serving with the Force". The train is an amliulnnco train and cost Li'tl.OOO. It i.s pa ntod khaki and is one of two constructed by the London and North We*torn Railway Company to the order of the War' Office tor iioe in France. In it the wounded will travel in perfect comfort to the hase hospitals. In the train there are IfJS hod-. Twenty orderlies .-ire accommodate I ,11 one car. for "lying down" eases there are foui ward cars each containing thirty-'-ix cotn. A pharmacy car carries aP the me;i'( :i! appliances and there is an operating-room w.'iere oorrations ol greal urgency can lie performed as the train steam.-; towards its d"-tination.

Sunday-School Teacher: "Can yon tell me who made you, Joseph?" .100 : "Co.! made part of me." Sunday-School Teacher: "Why, what do you mean by that.-"' Joe : "He made me real little, and T just groued the rest myself."