RAILWAY TIME-TABLES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23299, 8 April 1941, Page 12

RAILWAY TIME-TABLES

Sir,—On making application to the Railway department for a holiday booklet, so that I could see ’how the brains would be running at Easter and make my-holiday fit in accordingly, I was- informed that they had nol yet arrived. On asking for a pocket guide as the next best, I was informed that they were out of stocky and that not a single ‘ one could be procured m Christchurch. This seems'to be bad management somewhere, especially 1 when the department exhorts one to travel by train in these days of petrol .shortage. Or is it because the department Is*so sure of good business in. these days it. does not worry much? The. booklets should be ready at least before the holidays, so that can ihake arrangements accordingly, but 'here we are a week before rhe holidays and they are not procurable.—Yours, etc., ‘lm. i April 2. 1941. 1 [ThevDistrlct -Traffic Manager states: “The holiday booklets are, printed in Welllntfbn. Thai first supply in conSSSfeS qfficiv * immediately. ,The staff have, however, been In full possession of particulars , of extra and relief exSesaesTetc., to be run at Easter for ■dme six weeks, and had the correspondent'made Inquiry all necessanr Stomatioo could have been supplied. Th * shortage of official guides is due to - the' difficulty in obtaining paper supplies.*]