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At Morrinsville Station
Traffic Handled in One Year.

With twenty-five trains passing through every day, business is fairly brisk at Morrinsville Junction (on the Auckland-Rotorua Line). Twelve men comprise the station staff proper, in addition to which twelve surfacemen have their headquarters at Morrinsville.

During the past year over 21,000 tickets were sold at the ticket window at the station, an average of 70 each week day. From the station yard were despatched over 140,000 head of live stock and about 14,500 tons of goods. Trucks unloaded at the station brought 57,000 head of live stock, 33,000 tons of goods, including 10,000 tons of manure and 1,421,400 feet of timber.

A clerical staff of six men working various shifts attends to the office work at the station. A supply of trucks is always kept in the station yard for despatch to country stations on the Thames and Rotorua lines where trucks are needed. The inwards and outwards goods traffic of the station is also considerable.

A great deal of live stock is despatched to freezing works and saleyards from Morrinsville and the nearby flag stations of Kiwitahi, Walton and Tatuanui. Cattle and calves totalled 29,832, a good proportion, of course, being bobby calves. Only one other station in the North Island had a bigger total of cattle and calves, viz., Normanby, in Taranaki, which also serves an extensive dairying district. No other station in the Auckland province railed as many sheep and pigs as Morrinsville, which accounted for 112,000, mostly fat lambs and fat pigs. Nearly 50,000 sheep and pigs were unloaded at Morrinsville and nearby flag stations, representing the annual drafts of breeding ewes and other store sheep which are purchased by Morrinsville sheepfarmers.—From the Morrinsville Star.