SEEING THE "BOYS" OFF.
"Where a considerable body of men are taking their departure it will readily be understood that the admission of their 'immediate friends and relatives to the railway platform would result in overcrowding the platform to ,a dangerous extent and blocking the work." This is the reply of the Minister of Railways to a question by Mr. C. H. Poole as to why parents of soldiers who have come long distances to see their boys prior.to their departure are prohibited from going on railway platforms when accompanying their boys.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 153, 29 June 1916, Page 7
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