New Zealand Railways Praised

In the course of an interview with a representative of the “Evening Post,” Wellington, Captain Ballantine, the well-known sports writer who visited the Dominion recently gave his impressions of our railways as follows:—

“The railway travelling, and I calculate that I have travelled close on 7,000 miles, was, generally speaking, very comfortable, the main line travelling equalling the best. A great deal could be said of the exceptional variety of scenery viewed from the carriage windows. At times on one side there were great stretches of the ocean, and at other times there were great, high mountains in the distance, their slopes covered with dense bush or an extraordinary variety of ferns.”