RAILWAY “CRUISE”

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 5

RAILWAY “CRUISE”

Trip for Australian Girls A “Railway Cruise” is being arranged by the New South Wales Government Railways as a four days’ tour for schoolgirls, the first of the kind to have been organised. A special train, containing only first-class sleeping accommodation, will draw into Central on the night of December 18, where 100 schoolgirls will “embark on their cruise.” They will be shown to their sleepers and will retire for the night, leaving Sydney in the early hours of the morning, so that their arrival at their first destination, Mount Victoria, will coincide with the breakfast hour. After breakfast, the party, under the supervision of one lady to every twenty, girls, will be motored to the Jenolau Caves, where two inspections will be made, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, with an interval for lunch at the Caves House, leaving two hours of freedom for the girls before returning at night to Mount Victoria, and their cosy berths on the train. The same programme will be followed, the train pulling out in the small hours so that Bathurst—the next “port of call”—will be made in time for breakfast at the Bathurst Hotel. A tour of the city and surrounding district will occupy the morning, and rooms will be available at the hotel for the girls to bathe and change their clothes if desired before lunching and proceeding to the Bathurst experimental farm, where a tour of inspection and a demonstration of sheep-shearing will be among the attractions. The party will return to the hotel for dinner, and will be entertained at a function afterward, returning then to the train to sleep. Thursday will bring them to Orange, where, after breakfast at the Royal Hotel, they will be motored to Kangaroobie, the station home of the Misses Dalton, where they will be shown what life on a sheep station is like. Weather permitting, a picnic lunch will be staged on the banks of the river, and if rain should intervene, it will be held in the woolshed—an equally thrilling prospect. In the afternoon an inspection of the Pinnacle will be made, followed by a visit to a cherry orchard, where, with cherry picking and packing in full swing, the girls will find lots to interest them, not to mention the thrill of picking and eating cherries fresh from the The last day of the trip will be occupied in traversing, by daylight, all the country which has been covered, during the night, and the party will arrive back iu town on December 22. Apart from its educational value, the trip, In company of girls of their own age, should be a delightful holiday, and, as only girls of fourteen years and over will be taken, there will be no anxieties for the parents. The rail ticket, covering the cost of the trip, will be £5, and will include all other expenses, so that the girls not need to take a penny with them, but will be the guests of the Railway Commissioners through the “cruise.’