LIVES ON TRAINS.
•30,000 MILKS A YEAH. To travel .30,000 miles a year is an. average of 137 miles per day. Judge Bevan, the North-Western. Circuit Judge of New South Wales, practically spends his life in railway trains. Hit> Honor's circuit covers an'immci.se area, including Broken Hill and Bourke and during the year he dispenses jus tice at oO country courts. Broken Hill is 1399 miles from Sydney, and to make the return journey his Honor has to c over 2798 miles. Bourke is .308 miles from Sydney, and the retur journey for Judge Beyan is 1016' miles. His Honor also visits Berwarrina. -which is 518 link's from the metropolis, and the return journey 1036 miles. When his Honor took over the northwestern circuit shortly itfter his appointment ft few years ago he found the almost incessant travelling fatigui-.ig, but he lias now habituated himself to it.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 79, 7 April 1916, Page 3
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147LIVES ON TRAINS. Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 79, 7 April 1916, Page 3
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