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Evening Star, Issue 17764, 12 September 1921, Page 1

« T]io most antiquated style of doing things I have over cs-m. Anyone would thin!:, tho i-’copA: oi Auckland were a lot of criminals.” This was tlio commont of a verv Bin Drived stranger after seeing (through the pajinjis) the departure of the Main Trunk express. Tins visitor has ! travelled round the world, and could not I understand tho autot ratio and unreasonable methods to which Aucklanders (says the ‘Star’) have become so accustomed. The railway people evidently regard everyone but passengers as a menace to the task of getting the express away, and gather a whole army of porters, _ reinforced by several members o£ tho police force, <o eco that no ono passes the barriers at the head of the platform. Every night there must bo a score of railway employees to see tho train off, and so many are on duty to keep tho public out from the sacred enclosure that it is net always easy to find a porter, and the difficulty of transporting luggage from tho roadway to the platform is unnecessarily harassing. flow women travelling alone or with young children get on it is hard to say. Platform tickets to enable friends; of travellers to see them oif arc issued in most civilised countries, and when the Now Zealand Railway Department is looking for more revenue ann cutting down sendees to a minimum in order to cqt out waste, it seems strange that it should ignore tho handsome revenue knocking at the barrier gates every time the Main Trunk express leaves the platform. Ob, Mary! Mary! always contrary! How does your garden grow, dear? We know of the shells and the sweet bluebells, ’ And “ daffcdils-all-of-a-row,” dear. But cb, how funny! oh. dear! and ob, lorl What sro you planting the peppermint for? If it’s for colds-you’d be w;«r, I’m irate, In baying Woods’ Great Peppermint Oat*. y-r£Advt.J