The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 2 (June 1, 1931)
Practical Northerners
Practical Northerners.
To the little building near the Railway Institute, hundreds of schoolboys come every year to spend many happy hours looking over the earliest examples of railway engineering.
And the keenest visitors are not always children, for among the people of the north is a natural aptitude, or “turn,” as they would say, for things mechanical.
While the southerner is concerned only with the fact that a steam-engine goes, the more inquiring citizen of the north seeks to know why it goes.
Here under one roof are gathered objects which unfold eloquently the history of transport in the past century.