SUNDAY TRAINS
DEPARTMENT’S REPLY TO' PROTESTS (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, 15th April. “The Railway Department, 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 G. G. Stewart, chief publicity officer for the Department, when asked to reply to the recent protests that had been made against the running of Sunday excursions. “We did not. initiate the Sunday excursion movement,” paid Mr Stewart. “It was in existence long before any railway excursions were run on Sundays. People were being catered for in this respect by various motor organisations.” Regarding the question of rendering service to the people. .Mr Stewart- said that, if 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 (he community and the other —that was between the people who had their own private transport facilities and those who owned nothing but their share in the country’s transportation svstem.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 April 1929, Page 4
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194SUNDAY TRAINS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 April 1929, Page 4
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