[PRESS ASSOCIATION] RECORDS IN HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 155, 29 December 1910, Page 3

[PRESS ASSOCIATION ] RECORDS IN HOLIDAY TRAFFIC.

CHRISTCHUKCH, 28th Dec. Though the final returns of the Christmas passenger traffic on the railways and trams have not yet beeD made up. there is sufficient data available to show that the figures for the previous Christmas have been surpassed. Th© railways were extremely busy on Christmas Eve, and on Monday last, and it is expected that the returns will disclose that Monday was the best passenger day. On Tuesday, also, there was heavy passenger traffic. During the holiday season four express trains have been dispatched daily from .Christchurch, two going through to Dunedin, one to Oamaru, and the other to Timaru. Last Christmas three expresses were worked up to the fullest capacity, and this season -extra provision was made to cope with the anticipated increase. The Christchurch tramways have had a very good Christmas season, the receipts for the four days from the 24th to the 27th inclusive exceeding those of the corresponding period of last year by over £450. This is due to some extent to the circumstance that there were really two Boxing Days, Monday and Tuesday. There was no disposition to regard Monday (the holiday given for celebration as Christmas), as Christmas Day or a religious holiday, and the tram traffic was .very large on that /day. The fine weather suited the trams, and the extra holiday the service to secure the r-eveiiue which it missed through bad weather on Anniversary Pay.