Untitled

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20979, 6 October 1933, Page 16

"Among the special train excursions of the winter season none hav« been more successful than those associated with the national game of Rugby football," states the General I Manager of Railways, Mr G. B< Mackley, in the "New Zealand Raw- ' ways-Magazine." 'The matches fof », [the Ranfurly Shield have created . exceptional interest in» the South Island, new records in the numbers. carried being established for excursions from Southland and the West ; Coast. In the North Island, too, the Wellington-Auckland match » [Auckland saw an unprecedented number carried between these cities for an event of the kind. For all these excursions exceptionally lo* f rates have been charged, and this facility has undoubtedly been an important factor in developing a travel interest in the matches themselves."