SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.
EXTENSION OF SERVICE. RAILWAY DEPARTMENT’S PLANS. iBY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.; WELLINGTON. Feh. 13. A new policy has. been adopted by the Railway Department in regard to running excursion trains on Sundays, anti it is, now being practised between Helensville anil Auckland, Dunedin unci Palmerston South. Invercargill and Bluff, and Invercargill and Riverton. lines on which no train service was previously run on Sunday-. The policy in the past ha*? been to reduce Sunday working to a, minimum, but the department lias decided that the time has arrived when the railways should embark upon the running of Sunday excursion trains to meet the public need. This decision hasbeen. prompted largely through the increasing patronage accorded on the Sabbath to motor buses. ferry steamers, etc., by excursionists". No extra Sunday trains have been arranged so far as Wellington is concerned. as it i.sa felt that the present services are adequate. The idea is to run trains where previously the service hail been suspended ’on Sundays.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 5
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165SUNDAY EXCURSIONS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 5
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