HEAVY RAILWAY TRAFFIC
, NEW TEAU LOADINGS. The railway traffic during the New Year holidays is reported to have been verv heavy. " ■ Yesterday about 1700 people crossed the ftinnitaka Range from Lamhton Station, most of them bound for Tauherenikau Taces.. The local traffic on the Hup was a little below the average.
The Manawatu lino was acain popu r l*r. s Abmit 240(1 people entrained for ■ PlimnWtnn nntl iiitTineiliate stations, and ahniit 300 travelled to stations . yond Plimmertoii. Tlio .long-distance trains were fiirlv heavy. Sunday nieht's Main Trunk express »ind Inst nicht's carrie_d s lnrec numbers of people Swndav morning's train for PaekakariM and Plihunerton rarried a record crowd —1700. ■ ,? ■■ '■ ,; Tl\r influx of returning holidayninlcers hiis lieTiin. ami :fll incoi"'ns (ruins are-filM. Ye«lerrl.i,v Jim New l'lyuioutb mail, the Nanier ninil, aim tho relief trains, were, all heavilv loaded. Tho last seasido train of sixteen cars was packed, and arrived on tine*
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 2 January 1917, Page 4
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150HEAVY RAILWAY TRAFFIC Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 2 January 1917, Page 4
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