HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.
SOUTH ISLAND RAILWAYS. DECREASE IN NUMBERS. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. In a preliminary statement concerning the holiday traffic, Mr. H. H. Sterling, general manager of railways, states that the total number of passengers carried on the railways of the South Island during the Christmas and New Year holidays was 228,000. This shows 4 decrease of 18,500 passengers and a drop in revenue of £6800 on passenger traffic
Mr. Sterling said he had yet to obtain the detailed statement of the bookings, but he had little doubt that the decrease was largely to be accounted for by* a substantial falling off in ehort distance holiday traffic as the result of the wet •weather. The long distance traffic appeared to have kept up. but the climatic conditions had oaiis-ed the postponement of many functions while picnic traffic during the period was negligible. The returns covered the whole of the South Island district, witi U»
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 10
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