The Train You Want

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 8

The Train You Want

P\EPARTURES from Palmerston North WEEK DAYS:— WELLINGTON (Thorndon)—3.s7 a.m. (not Monday), C. 53 a.m., 7.5 a.m., 1.8 p.m., 3.16 p.m., 3.43 p.m., 5.5 p.m. WANGANUI—C.S2 a.m., I p.m., 4.10 p.m., 6 p.m. NEW PLYMOUTH—6.S2 a.m., 1 p.m. NAPIER—7.IO a.m., 12.25 p.m. MASTERTON AND WELLINGTON (Lambton) —11.4 a.m. MASTERTON—S.IO p.m. (Tucs., Thurs. and Sat. only). AUCKLAND—6 p.m., 0.57 p.m. (not Saturdays, runs Sundays). SUNDAY TRAINS. DEPARTURES—WELLINGTON (Thorndon) a.m., 8.40 a.m., 5.15 p.m. WELLINGTON (Lambton) p.m. (Rail Car.)

suddenly tho nose of tho bridge, only threo inches from its abutment, began to fall downwards ... I shut my eyes on the horrid scene, awaiting the crash at the bottom of the ravine.” Something had slipped; suddenly it gripped again. “Up she came to the vital level ... I signalled that it was done. And from the depth of tho canyon there arose the exultant roar of men’s voices that reached almost to tho mountain tops.” Five years of unremitting toil, danger, and hardship had not been in vain; the Rowanduz and Bcrserini Gorges had been taken captive by applied science and man’s unconqucr a bio will.

A great deed, a great book, a great man. Tho public will be unworthy of such deeds or books or men if it fails to make a best-seller of “Road Through Kurdistan.”