AN EMPTY CITY
CLOSE HOLIDAY YESTERDAY TRAMWAYMEN’S BUSY HOURS If some foreign air force yesterday had launched an attack on Christchurch the city could scarcely have been more thoroughly evacuated. It seemed that the population of the city went off to Addington, either to the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting or to the Royal Show.
With almost all the shops in the city closed for people’s day at the show the city was truly deserted. It was a holiday for nearly everyone—nearly, because some were forced to work, and of these the tramway employees worked the hardest. They, had a very busy day. From the middle of the morning trams left the Square for the show or ( the trotting meeting as soon as they had been loaded. With one, and more generally two trailers, they ran to no fixed time-table, but concentrated on getting the people to Addington as. soon as possible, and their stops in the Square were seldom for more than two or three minutes. Although the service to Sumner was more than doubled, comparatively few went to the beach, although the morning sunshine promised a favourable day.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 14
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189AN EMPTY CITY Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 14
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