SUNDAY EKGURSIOIIS

Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 8

SUNDAY EKGURSIOIIS

PEOPLE'S EIGHT AS TRAIN OWNERS (Per United Press Association.] CM IRISTCHURCIT, April ].». “ Tlic Railway Deportment by running Sunday excursions is helping to put the State’s transportation business on a more satisfactory financial footing. That is practically the departmental attitude towards the business as a commercial concern,” said Mr 0. J. Stevens, chief publicity officer for the department, when asked to reply to recent protests that had been made against the running of Sunday• excursions. “We did not initiate the Sunday excursion movement,” said Mr Stewart. “ Jt had been in existence long belore any railway excursions wore run on Sunday, the people being catered for in this respect by various motor organisations.” Regarding the cpiostion of rendering service to the people, Mr Stewart said that certain people could travel on Sundays and others were unable to do so owing to the failure of the people’s own transportation service to supply the necessary facilities. There was a definite distinction raised as between one section of the community and another—that was between the people who had their own private facilities — and those who owned nothing but their share iu (he country’s transportation system.