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OU ought to know — you youngsters who get away for holidays. Don’t you recognise the sand dunes and the way the stunted seaside trees grow up against the sky? You don’t? You do? You don’t? Well, the fact is that it’s very like a great many places without being any one of them. Is the name at the end of the station too tiny for you to read? It’s "RONGOTAIL." And if you leaned across, your two out-stretched hands would all but cover that goods shed on the far side of the rail! It'll all a toy-a train and a station in miniature. But not only a station. See how busy it is! Passengers are with
bags in hand and coats slung over arms. Others have come to see their friends away. A guard stands at the edge of the platform ready to give the signal. Yet each one of these people is only the span of your fingers in height. And when the train does arrive-as it doeswith flashing lights and shrill warning whistle, with whirring of wheels and grinding of brakes-not one of the passengers hurries to clamber on. It’s a model-a toy-tele-graph poles, metalled roads and all. And you'll find it in the Government Court of the Centennial Exhibition. Don’t you wish it. ran through your garden?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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222WHERE'S THIS? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 34
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