The Permanent Way is the Only Way.

But be not sorely distressed by your financial inability to hunt tamo'shanters and decanters in the highlands of Caledonia, catch red herrings in the Black Sea, stalk llamas in pyjamas through the wilds of the Bahamas, chase cheeses round the Zuyder Zee, or trap the deceptive demijohn in the great American Desert.

Let those who will, sing of the ocean's heaving bosom (to say nothing of their own) and the splendours of foreign travail, but permit me to say on behalf of the management that New Zealand's permanent way can put it over any other way, whichever way you look at it. For restoring the pristine blush to the red corpuscles reclaiming the skin you love to clutch, and reorganising the affairs in the department of the interior, the railway is capable of handing the raspberry to any other means of travel known to Cook.

Consider, debilitated reader, the advantages of travelling by train through your own woodland scenes, as against dodging the “customs” through the sights, sounds and smells of “furrin parts” and at a mileage cost which is responsible for the permanent settling down of the lost tribes of Israel.