TRIALS OF TRAIN TRAVELLING
ON ROTORUA EXPRESS. Auckland. Wednesday. Railway passengers have an enemy in the dust which yesterday enveloped the Rotorua express like a mantle. The fine pumice sand with which the permanentway is ballasted found its way all over everything and everybody. When the train arrived at Morrinsville Junction, the original color of the carriages was visible only in parts, and inside on the cushions and ledges there was a thiuk deposit, reminiscent of a gold battery in the days of dry crushing. In the refreshment car one was forcibly reminded of the truth of the saying that "a mail must eat a peck of dirt in his lifetime," but it was rather trying to have to eat it all at once. There is some talk of ballasting the Rotorua section with scoria in place of pumice, but this is still a long way off, and it is rather surrising the Department cannot evolve some scheme to abate the nuisance. The least they could do would be to have the carriages dusted at Morrinsville, where the worst of the ordeal is over, or supply cloths for the purpose to those who do not care about sitting in a dust heap for a hundred and aeventy-one miles at a stretch.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 235, 9 February 1911, Page 5
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211TRIALS OF TRAIN TRAVELLING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 235, 9 February 1911, Page 5
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