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By Those Who Like Us

From Mr. C. A. Clarke, Hon. Secretary, District High School, Rotorua, to Mr. H. Welsh, Business Agent:

I am instructed by our Committee to thank you very sincerely for the splendid train arrangements made in connection with the excursion of school children from here recently to the Winter Show at Hamilton.

The accommodation was most comfortable. Instead of the children arriving back tired out, cold and weary, they were in the best of spirits, lively and warm and sorry it was the end of a perfect day. They are already looking forward to next year. The train journey is rather long for children and especially the return when all the fun is over, the hour too is rather late for the younger ones, but I should have liked you to have been on hand to see their happy faces, it would have been quite sufficient recompense for your endeavour on their behalf. I should like to mention the courtesy and assistance received at the hands of the Stationmaster and Officials at Rotorua, those in charge of the train and at Hamilton. Everyone did their utmost to make the outing pleasant and where there are so many children this is not always easy. I hope you are satisfied with the way the train was patronised and that you will see your way to grant similar concessions and facilities in the future.

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“I wish to convey to your Department our appreciation of the services rendered,” writes the Manager of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Company's Waitoa Butter Factory, to the Stationmaster at Hamilton, in the matter of the consignment of the past season's butter. “It is a very pleasant feeling to us to know that our trucks will be along and that we will be able to consign our produce. It has been very noticeable during the past season that whatever we have asked of you within reason has been fulfilled promptly and courteously, which is at all times greatly appreciated.”

Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd., write expressing appreciation of the co-operation and assistance received from the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department, the District Engineer and the Traffic Branch, Auckland, in connection with the successful transportation from Auckland to Putaruru on 25th July of the first shipment of over-gauge packages for the Arapuni Hydro Electric Works. Through the efficient working of the officials concerned the work was carried out without a hitch.

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Mr. G. C. T. Orr, of Sydney, who was a passenger on the excursion train to Otira on Sunday, 25th July, writes to the Stationmaster, Christchurch, as follows:—“I should like to express to yourself and staff my very deep appreciation of the exceedingly courteous manner in which you arranged for my participation in the Otira excursion. Attention such as this, is, to say the least, rare in other places…..I can assure you that the experience will always be looked back to with pleasure, and I trust when I visit your city next year, I may again have the opportunity and pleasure of enjoying the magnificent scenery of the Otira Gorge.”

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Writing to the District Traffic Manager at Wellington, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company Ltd., expresses appreciation of the good work of Mr. Newman, Stationmaster at Palmerston South, and Mr. Clark Stationmaster at Lyttelton, in tracing a parcel of film which had gone astray. Through the co-operation of these officers, the film, which was urgently required, was discovered and dispatched to Wellington, thus saving the Company being placed in “a very serious predicament.” They conclude:—“You may rest assured that the courtesy and attention extended by your officers has merited our full appreciation, and goes a long way towards cementing the faith of this and other organisations of a like nature, in the excellent service at present rendered by the New Zealand Railways.”