RAILWAY AND AIR SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1938, Page 12

RAILWAY AND AIR SERVICES

The arrival and departure times of the principal trains at Wellington Station are as follows :— DEPARTURES. To Auckland. —3 p.m. and 7.15 p.m. (no night train on Saturdays or afternoon train on Sundays). To Napier.—9.4o a.m. To New Plymouth.—lo.ls a.m. To Woodville.—7.so a.m., 3.30 p.m. (rail-car). To Palmerston North.—B.3o a.m., 9.40 a.m., 10.15 a.m., 3.0 p.m., 5.47 p.m., 7.15 p.m. (Limited Express not Saturday). To Masterton. —7.50 a.m., 3.30 p.m. (railcar), 6.4 p.m. (rail-car) . ARRIVALS. From Auckland. —7 a.m. (not Mondays), 9.30 a.m. (not Sundays). From Napier.—4 p.m. From New Plymouth.—s.ss p.m. From Woodville.—l2.l4 p.m. (rail-car), 5.44 p.m. From Palmerston North.—lo.49 a.m., 7.8 p.m. From Masterton. —10.10 a.m. (rail-car), 12.14 p.m. (rail-car), 5.44 p.m. AIR SERVICES. Arrival and departure times of airliners at the Rongotal Airport are as follows:— DEPARTURES. To Auckland.—Noon. (Union Airways service.) To Ne150n.—7.45 a.m., 11.35 a.m., 12.15 p.m., 3.30 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) To Blenheim.—B.3o a.m., 10.45 a.m., 11.35 a.m., 2.15 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) ARRIVALS. From Auckland. —ll a.m. (Union Airways service.) From Nelson.—B.ls a.m., 11.20 a.m., 2 p.m., 4.15 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cook Strait Airways service.) From Blenheim.—9.3s a.m., 11.20 a.m., 12.5 p.m., 3.20 p.m., Monday to Saturday. (Cools Strait Airways service.) To Nelson.—l2.ls p.m. SUNDAYS. To Auckland.— Noon. From Auckland.—ll a.m.

When Police-Sergeant Bullimore, of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, went to have what he thought was a fishbone removed from his throat he was both pleased and surprised to see a piece of shrapnel extracted from a wound received in 1917.