Home on Wheels

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 489, 19 October 1928, Page 1

Home on Wheels

Touring Train Baths, Sleepers, Lounge and Kitchen A Home on wheels—when the Chamber of Commerce train steams out of Auckland next Friday evening it will be complete with every modern convenience. The tourists need not dispense with their morning bath. Morning and affrernon tea will be provided. As the train speeds through the night those on board will be able to play bridge. This Chamber of Commerce train, the first venture of its kind in New Zealand, will be the most comfortable thing yet assembled by the Railway Department. It will consist of 11 cars in all. There will be four sleepers, two day cars of the kind which run on the Limited, a lounge car complete with writing and card tables, the general manager’s car, a car specially fitted with shower baths, another car fitted up as a kitchen, and the guard’s van. Towels and soap are to be provided as well as magazines and books. Special arrangements are being made to take on the daily newspapers at given stations. Mr. H. H. Sterling, general manager of the railways, wfill travel part of the journey. There will be 60 representatives of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce apd officials of the following Government departments: Railways, Agriculture. Forestry and Industries and Commerce. At most of the towns at which the train will visit functions and receptions havp been arranged.