RACE AND PLEASURE TRAINS
MOVE FOR SUSPENSION NOT SUPPORTED
A motion that the Government be asked not to provide any more race trains or special trains at holiday periods was moved at a meeting of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce last evening by Mr A. E. Bartrum, but lapsed for want of a seconder. Mr Bartrum said he raised the question for three reasons. First, railway staffs were working extended hours and he thought they had passed the limit for efficiency, safety, and health. Second, there was the position of coal supplies, which were far from satisfactory, an illustration being the shortage of gas at Auckland, where some factories engaged on essential production had had to shut down for short periods. Third, rolling stock was being heavily strained already by the demands of war. He said he was not opposed to racing but considered that for the reasons he had mentioned race and pleasure trains should be suspended. He moved that the chamber write direct to the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraserj.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23941, 7 May 1943, Page 4
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