AS OTHERS SEE US.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 484, 25 November 1919, Page 2

AS OTHERS SEE US.

Thus " 97.L." in the " Bulletin " on the recently abolished railway restrictions: "The resumption of the full railway service in M lonland robbel the roads of the Dominion of rormnce. Fast motor mail and pas senger cars have covered the country from end to end for the past three months, and the exploi:s of some of them make breathless listening The 'e was one service whinh made a daily connexion each way, between Weilington and New Plymouth. Behind each of the big cars ran a trai'er, on which mailbaga were packed. The distance, over 250 railos, was covered in a little over 10 hou'-s, and in some places the speed seemed awful to the passengers. Five pounds was the fare for a ride, and many would haye paid £SO to cancel the contract after it had star ed. The Taranaki roads are asphalted—a temptation to speed at any time. And at Patea, where there is a straight two miles, the inhabitants got inside their houses when the car was due. Even then the failure to close the street door after him nearly cost a cobbler his life, for a loose rim and tyre da->hed in one day, after racing along beside the car for half a mile. They talk about those mail cars in Taranaki as am usel to talk of the Flying Dutch man.