TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS.
GOODS FREE ON MONDAY.®
PERMITS REMAIN FOR WEEK.
WORK OF THE COMMITTEE.
The end of the restrictions imposed on the carriage of passengers, goods, and live stock on the railways is in sight, a definite announcement on the subject having been issued by the Railway Department yesterday.
The restrictions on goods and live stock will be removed as from -uonday. In order to.prevent congestion, however, it will be necessary for consignment notes to be forwarded to the committee of business men, which eits in the Chamber of Commerce up to and including next Friday. The committee will remain in existence durin? that time, and will use ite discretion in regard to the goods and quantities which are entitled to priority. The permit system for passengers will remain in force up to and including next Saturday. c Appreciation of the services of th« business men's committee was expressed yesterday by an official of the Raihvav Department. He said that members of the committee had taken turns in £,ittm-» every day for over a month. Thev had put through a tremendous quantity 0 goods, and had now got matters we'll in hand, so that there was little accumulation.
The bookings for the express which left for Wellington last evening were not as heavy as for the two previous trains this week. The passengers numbered slirhtlv over 200. - ■'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 8
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