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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 79, 27 December 1928, Page 16

The holiday rush at. the Auckland Railway Station had its lighter moments (states the “Sun”). Because of the late arrival from the south of one train, extra cars for the Taneatua express had to be found in the yard. These were not labelled, and were locked, until a porter could mark the seats. He carefully locked the doors, and started busily pasting numbers to the seats. Meanwhile, the doors were beseiged by. waiting passengers. One clever traveller produced his pocket knife, and carefully opened the door of the carriage in which the porter was working. But he , had not thought of the crowd which swarmed up behind him. The door flew open, people piling on top of each other in the rush to find seats. The swinging door met the porter with a crash. His paste-pot and tickets flew in all directions, but not before he had received the full flavour of the paste in his mouth. A freak . Scotch thistle, found on the farm of Mr. J. Cairns, Flemington, was brought into Ashburton the other morning (says the “Guardian”). The several stems have grown together into a flat stalk, nearly a foot wide at the top, and half an inch thick. A bunch of leaves has for a centre piece a cluster of buds nearing the opening stage. These arc not round, but have been flattened in the same manner as the stems. The whole plant is over four”feet high.