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Grey River Argus, 14 December 1938, Page 11

His clothes bore unmistakable signs of the rough usage to which they had been subjected; his rolling gait betrayed that he was “one over the nine.” The scene was the Hastings railway station. He climbed on board the north-bound express, only to oe returned to the platform by the sta-tion-master, who knew the man’s destination to be Matamata. After soihe difficulty, he boarded the sbllth-bound train half an hour later, after he had 'been induced to part with his decrepit dog, which was placed' in the guard’s ,van. He weaved his' way through the 'carriage of arhused passenger's, lehried over, the' rail, shook; hands with the policemap, the station' master, add' the reporter, and' bid Hastings adieu '.with a grandiose gesture. “He’s been’ trying td catch that train .for four days," said a bystander.