REFRESHMENT ROOM.
There is a refreshment room on the journey from Masterton to Wellington — a journey which occupies anything from four to five hours— at which travellers are allowed, df time permits, five minutes in which to regale themselves with a cup of tea and a sandwich. As often as not, in the busy season, a penson finds it impossible to reach the refreshment counter in the tinne, and he has to go hungry. In the beat of circumstances he has hardly got his cup to Ms lips when the'beH rings. After passing through a series of isnnoky tunnels the traveller requires; something to wash the smoke and dust from his throat, and five minutes is not long enough to ipermit Mm to do at. On a journey in which time is not altogather the essence of the contract,' the' Department might reasonably arrange that the stay at a refreshment room \i's, i&ufneiently long to enable a person to partake of a.cup of tea in comfort.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10307, 7 August 1911, Page 4
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166REFRESHMENT ROOM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10307, 7 August 1911, Page 4
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