TALE OF A DOG.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10168, 18 February 1911, Page 5

TALE OF A DOG.

FROM HUNTERVILLE 'lu MAS- / TERTON.

A RAILWAY ROUNDABOUT;

That the Railway Department,is, determined te interests of• the .Wairarapa; railway line for those of the, Manawatu has,' been in, a • pecuHarly atic manner this week.; A shepherd of *; (near Masterton) left Hunterville last Saturday -with a valua'ble dog. When be reached Marten Junction he «aw that, the animal was carefully placed on the same train as himself. On his arrival at Masterton he enquired for the animal, but found that it had not been put off. Telegrams were despatched ito Featherston, Ci-oss' Creek and the Summit; but no trace could be iound of the dog. At length" the services of a member of Parliament were invoked. The whole machinery of the Department was called into requisition,, and at last the canine was discovered (to be at Johnsonville. How it gdt there only a jJervefse Department can . know. But yesterday 'it was discovered. One would nave thought that it would at once have been transferred to (the Wairarapa train and brought on to Masterton. But no; it had l not yet satisfied the eccentric nature of the Department. It was conveyed to Palmerston, thence to Wpodville, and down the line to Masterton. If the owner has more than average luck, he should recover it to-day. The ways of the railways are most mysterious. Even a dog must not be allowed to travel over the Rimuitaka!