Trains Soon on South Trunk Line

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 2

Trains Soon on South Trunk Line

CHRISTMAS EXCURSIONS PLANNED Such good progress is being made with the construction of the South Island Main Trunk that it is very likely that as early as Christmas this year, trains will be running occasionally to take excursionists into the lovely picnic country round about the famous Hundalee Reserve, and even further afield to the sunny terraces and beaches around Claverley, says the Christchurch Press. Already the Railway Department is making tentative arrangements, with the co-operation of the Public Works Department, for the first of these excursions. Officials are confident that the completion of the lino into the Hundalee will open up one of the finest summer excursion and camping areas yet exploited from the city. The Hundalee has been famed for many years among campers and motorists, but not until rail access is available, will the rank and file town-dweller be able to wander through its fine native forests, along the miles of sandy shores from the Conway river mouth to the Amuri Bluff, and across the bluff itself, where the sea-coast scenery is probably as beautiful as could be found anywhere in New Zealand.