A Unique Record

The assertion that he has travelled a million miles on the railway between Auckland and Frankton Junction is made by Mr. William H. Mathison, a news vendor, well known in the Waikato (says an exchange). “They will probably know me better as ‘Scotty,'” he said, when mentioning that for the past fifteen years it has been his practice six days a week to leave Frankton for Auckland at 9.45 a.m., and return by the train leaving the city at 4.1 p.m. “Scotty” holds the opinion that train travelling in New Zealand is very safe. “Fifteen years’ travelling between Frankton and Auckland every day,” he said, “and I have never been in a collision nor seen a train off the line.”