“There is always a danger in writing to an ideal,” declares a poet. For instance, she might kee-u the letters. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Lotschberg mountain railway was celebrated lately, when a party of people were the guests of the board of directors in a special train which took them from Berne to Spiez, Kandersteg, and Brig, and back. The railway was built by a French company at a cost of £4,000,000. Its highest point, 4080 feet up, lies in the middle of the Lotschberg Tunnel, which is nine miles long.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 11
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