A Railway Cartoon.

“If you don't let the railway carry you, you will have to carry the railway.” And not only that, but the engines, carriages, vans, trucks, workshops, stations and other buildings as well. The cleverly designed advertisement of the N.Z.R. delivers an eloquent sermon that should make one and all think seriously. It's akin to Atlas carrying the world on his back. The colossal sum of sixty million pounds sterling is invested in our railway system, and in return for that huge total we have a transport service second to none in the world, unsurpassed in comfort and unequalled in safety. There is one particularly outstanding fact in connection with our railways that we should remember: that all our State-given advantages—postal, educational, manual, agricultural, commercial, etc.—are due to and dependent upon an efficient railroad system, without which the advantages named could not have been developed. Our railways are the Alpha and Omega of all that is necessary and desirable in our national life, and if they are not adequately supported by the mass of the people the numerous other State blessings we enjoy must inevitably be curtailed.—(From the New Zealand Sportsman.)