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THE GREAT ALPINE TUNNELS. 



There are heroes on our railways as there are in our army and navy 

 and they deserve better recognition. May I plead on behalf of our 

 inspectors and superintendents of our great railway stations, who are 

 m many cases almost worked to death, and yet have to be attentive 

 and courteous to all; albeit, except in certain honorable exceptions 

 they are unable to make proper provision for old age? And should it 

 be necessary for a station master, after six years 1 work at a great nil 

 way junction, to drop into his grave with the simple epitaph 'Hired 

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