DESERTED STREETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 188, 11 August 1925, Page 13

DESERTED STREETS.

I It has been said on occasions that lhad a cannon ball been fired up a certain [ street nobody would have been hit. so 'deserted was that particular street at I the time. If ever such remark was I true it was so at noon to-day, when J practically every street in the city and i suburbs was deserted completely. >iot 'only in Queen Street, biit in every ono of the main thoroughfares which arc usually the scene of much animation, there was a total absence of traffic. either vehicular or pedestrian. Two hours earlier the city was packed with people who arrived in buses, trams, trains, motor cars, and even some came with pony and trap, but as fast as the passenger services landed their loads the people broke away in. different directions to secure a place of vantage from where the arrival of tlic fleet could be clearly viewed, and at noon there was hardly a sign of life in any street other than those where the crowd gathered to see the battleships' entrance to the harbour. So early did the people flock to the city from the outlying suburbs, that the cars, buses and trains arriving after eleven o'clock were almost empty, some trains not having more than half-a-dozen passengers, and it ■was the same with the trains and buses. The traffic was dense, but was well controlled by the council inspectors, who met the situation ably and without causing any unnecessary inconvenience.