CENTRAL BOOKING OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 285, 1 December 1928, Page 10

CENTRAL BOOKING OFFICE.

/ * I READY FOR MONDAY'S BUSINESS. TOURIST £ND RAILWAYS TOGETHER.

Auckland's new central railway booking office and tourist bureau will be ; opened at' 9 a.m. on Monday. The offices, yrbidt are 1 np-to-date in every respect, are ntuatw( |ii the Government Life Insurance Buildings at the corner of Ex/Change Lane and Queen Street—an ideal 'titer for thfe'purpose. The new offices are ' repute overy modern facility for hfMialing of large crowds of ptojpef.;;ijf hoy' will be open from 9 a.m. and till noon T/Hornibrooke has been api&krftited officer-in-charge and will have in the railway portion of ti* pTemi*ei; while the tourist departbranch will be in charge of Mr. W. tlarke, who will have an office staff of Mx under him.

•All clasps of tickets will be sold to any statidn in New Zealand. PubKc telephones' have been installed as well as intercommunication lines with other railway offices in the city. The Government Life Insurance partment' is still located in the samttf building it the back, access being made! by a paitegeway on the side. H , Mr. Ai McNeil, business agent frofl*. Railways head office, Wellington, hatf keen: : in Auckland superintending ar-1 rangements in connection with the new office*, and'this morning practically all the of the Government depjartlilento in Aueklandgatheired in the new. tnktfding and were, tshnnijtor a tour S itito. course ot hfe. remarks. Mi. pjtcNpil :*ai4'''X® wished to thank all "' '.T few the manner tfc;.Wbrk had-b*en carried outi In tbatconiieetion tie; made special refer-. teh<ja'! ; '#Vra»& co-operatisn and assistance I and the district railway* engineer's staff I at Auckland.