BANK HOLIDAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 184, 7 August 1933, Page 7

BANK HOLIDAY.

TRAFFIC RECORDS.

Fine Weather Forecast Sends Thousands on Travel.

MANY VISITORS TO BRITAIN,

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12.80 p.m.)

RUGBY, August 6.

Yesterday, for the third successive day, the* temperature in London was 83 degrees, 85 was registered at Croydon and Si at Malvern. The weather forecasts anticipate the hottest August bank holiday, which is this week-end, since 1911, and weather throughout the British Isles.

It is believed that the week-end traffic will be heavier than any previous bank holiday. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway will run 500 extra trains, and the Southern Railway 222. Tho Great Western Railway announces record bookings in the passenger service on all lines which have been duplicated. Over 00 air liners, fully laden, crossed the Channel on Friday.

There is a wide programme of sporting events arranged in all centres. Meanwhile the influx of foreign visitors is 50 per cent higher than at any time in the last five years, including numbers from Austria, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Germany, and Poland.

11l view of the large number of accidents in tho first six months of 1933 the Minister of .Transport, Mr, Oliver Stanley, has issued a special appeal to all users of the roads to exercise special care during the holiday period, when the roads will be thronged.