ON THE KANGAROO PLANE
Some backblocks children in Australia still reach quite an age before they see the sea. In times past their coming to the coast used to be an occasion for two great admirations —the railway train and the sea; and perhaps the flashing wheels were more wonderful to them than even the flashing breakers. But riot so now. Early this month children from far western Queensland who had their first ride in a train on their way to the Bush Brotherhood camp at Coolangatta were unanimous in their opinion that train travel is far too slow. They are accustomed to fast motor-cars and aeroplanes, and they would have been a useful ally for any train-speeding deputation in its usual collision with railway authority. One boy's observation clinched the case. "Even a kangaroo," he said, "could keep up with the train if it tried." There are in New Zealand some trains that are very kangaroo. If rail-cars are a cure they are not before their time. Railway administration belongs to one generation, the modern child to another.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 8
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179ON THE KANGAROO PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 8
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