Mystery train trip for Boys’ Brigade
More than 200 boys, officers, and families of officers from the Boys’ Brigade camp at Waipara went on a mystery train trip yesterday, giving the Waipara railway station its busiest day for passengers for several years.
The campers walked from:: the camp to the Waipara sta-| tion and boarded the rnystery train at 8.30 a.m. yes-h terday — the only clue as toi, where they were going being i the fact that the train was pointing north. From Waipara, the train!: turned left and headed inland : on the Waiau branch line. It : stopped finally at the Huru-i nui River bridge, where a' picnic had been organised, ji “The Forest Service put on!
a fire-fighting display, using i its fire tenders, arid gave many of our campers the chance to try their hand at : fire-fighting,” said the camp 'Commandant (Mr W. Pearcyi ■ last evening. For the crew of the train, :it was a historic occasion, said Mr Pearcy. “They stopped at one stage to take photographs of the boys standing by the train, as it is ! many years since a passenger train has been so far along >the line,” he said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33111, 29 December 1972, Page 8
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