Social Side of Rail Travel.

“Quest” tripped it to Tauherenikau last Monday and had a “rare old outing” (says the “New Zealand Sportsman”). The railway journey from Lambton to Featherston was both comfortable and expeditious, safe and secure, quiet and restful. The arboreal hills of the Western Hutt, the meandering river through verdant pastures, and beautiful home sites, the rocky Rimutakas, with their towering heights, sheep and cattle peacefully grazing, the picturesque plains of the Wairarapa with their varied rural charms—these and other refreshing scenes marked the railway journey. One sees things worth while from the window of a railway carriage that are unobservable from a motor vehicle. Railway travelling is sociable, and whether you travel in a first-class or second-class carriage, new faces are met, new friendships formed, new ideas gleaned and new view-points learned, and then, “at the end of a perfect day,” the best attainment of all is “the soul of a friend we've made.”

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