MAIN TRUNK LINE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 8

MAIN TRUNK LINE.

THE FIRST ORDINARY PASSENGER TRAIN. _fl ■ AN UNEXPECTED TRIP. (BT TELEGRAPH,- —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,) ■ Taihape, August 18. Owing, to tho flooded stato of the Sulphur Stream; near Ohakune, tho coaches woro unable to'convey passengers between Makatote and Ohakune ; this' morning. Tho Public Works: Department, therefore ran tho trains right through, when the following ono hundred and thirty persons had tho honour of being tho first ordinary passengers to travel between Makatote and Ohakune:—

Messrs. ~E. A.. Goodgor,. W. Gittos, F. Hall, J. A. Watkins, H. S. Wagstaff, M. Keating,' M. Hoffernan, R. G. Slyfield, T. M'Lean, Robt. Bine, A. Aitcheson, L. GardF. Sellars/A. S. Taylor, J. Olsen, G. M'Vicar, Chas.' Fitzgerald, A. Bogle, A. Thompson, C. Edwards, W. E. Neale, A. P. Murphy,. John Honsler, P. G. Rousell, A. H. D. Williams, John Jacobs, L. C. Jennings, David'Taylor, V. Meynberr, and W. Dimock, Mrs. W. Dimock, .Miss E. Dimock, Mr. and Mrs". MlCallum, Mrs. F. W. Garner, Miss H. M. Garner, Mrs. G. Hyland, Mr.' and Mrs. A. W. Jones, Messrs. M. N. Atkinson, A. H. Harbottle, M. J. Harbottle, J. F. Whito, H., J. Boswick, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Satterthwaite, Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. • Shorland, Miss Cholmondelcy, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Woding, Messrs. G. Batham and J. Selig, Mr. and Mis. H. - J.- H. Blow, Miss Palmer, Miss M., Palmer,-Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Pettit, Miss Pettit, Mrs,., R. Sigley, Mrs. Hull, Messrs. S. E. 'Wakeman, E. A. Wakeman, H. W. Hayncs, Miss Ethel S. Jones, Messrs. Paul Kennedy, P. Nielson, A. H. Callaghan, L. J. Rowe, O. M. loung, F. Froderikson, and M. J. Walsh, Mrs. Dassler, Messrs. W. Edwards,' Ted Edwards, and Hono l'iha, Mr. and Mrs. A. March, Messrs. A. J. Joyce and Francis Henderson,' Mrs. C. Adams, Miss Nelly Henderson, Messrs. M. Purvis, C, H. Clifford, J. Booth, James Robson, C. J. Jenkins, A. G. Tatton, W. Sampson, G. D. Macfarlane, ; T. E. Whitfield, J. Pepper, I. H. Johnson, A. H. Barton, D. M. Lachlau, C. Flynn, Alex. Dempster, S. J. M'Cormick,' Colin M'Donald, J. Edwards, G, L. Winger, Harry Baker, M. J. Lampo,'J. M'Kenzie, J. J. Kilmour, James Wilson, A.. Marton, Jacob Geungo, H. Johnstone, and W. Naismith, Mrs. Naismith, Mr: H. M. and Mrs. Ries, Mr. and Mrs. Merson, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Quin, and Messrs. O. Beavis and L. Sellars.

Nearly ! all theso had purchased coach tickets at Bs. each., and fearing no refund would bo given, many sold their tickets to one astute person for five shillings. At Ohakune tho eight shillings was refunded, and the astute person cleared £4 10s. on his bargaiu. .