RACEHORSE TRAFFIC
Attendants to be Carried Free on Railways The General Manager of Railways. Mr. G. H. Mackley, announced yesterday, on behalf of the Government Railways Board, that as from Monday uext racehorse attendants, travelling by train to take care of racehorses en route, will be carried free, an attendant being allowed for each horse carried.
“This concession.” said Mr. Mackley, “will be available to all those attendants who, under existing conditions, have been carried at half fares. “The free conveyance of the racehorse attendants is intended as a service which should be of some assistance to the racing industry of the Dominion and lend encouragement to owners and trainers to send their racehorses further afield by rail. “It is anticipated that additional railway traffic may result both directly, through the greater inducement now offered (which is supplementary to the 25 per cent, rebate off the sltiudiird rale for so long conceded on racehorse traffic for all journeys made by rail, 1 to use the railways to a larger extent than previously for the transport ol racehorses, and also indirectly through the possibility of larget ‘fields’ inducing more passengers to travel by train to race meetings.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 73, 19 December 1935, Page 12
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196RACEHORSE TRAFFIC Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 73, 19 December 1935, Page 12
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