Railways Doing Their Part.

Previous issues of this magazine have given many tourists' favourable opinions of the railway services throughout the Dominion. A recent visitor, a well-known citizen of the U.S.A., Mr. P. M. Leavitt, has recorded his impressions in a letter to the Railway representative (the mailagent) on R.M.S. Tahiti. Here is an extract:—

I have traversed the islands from Auckland to Dunedin, and am glad to testify to receiving the utmost and universal courtesy and assistance from every R.R. official and employee I have come in contact with that a traveller in a strange land could desire, and further I have noticed the same of those travelling near me. Your rail service is excellent, and I have enjoyed my travel over it very much. I question much whether any great improvement could be made without an increased expense beyond what there is the traffic in sight to pay for.

Mr. Leavtt made some suggestions for some early-morning re-adjustments of time-tables. He remarked that the early leaving of certain trains from termini made it difficult to obtain even an early breakfast. “Another thought which was discussed by many other travellers who felt as I did,” he continued, “was that ice-cream could page 5 well be added to the quick-lunch refreshment service at more stations. I found it at only two I touched.”