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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17276, 27 September 1919, Page 8

END OF RESTRICTIONS.

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

LAST DAY OF THE " CUT."

PASSENGERS AND GOODS.

y To-day is the last day of the restricted train service. The time-table which was in operation prior to July 2 last, when the drastic curtailment rendered necessary by the shortage of coal was introduced, will be reinstated to-morrow.

The effect of the reinstatement is that, commencing to-morrow, an express will leave Auckland for Wellington at 7.;0 o'clock each evening, except on Saturdays. An express will leave Auckland for Thames, Rotorua, Waihi, Taumarunui, and Cambridge at 9.15 a.m. daily, and a train will be despatched to rank ton at 3.45 p.m. daily.

An express will arrive from Wellington daily at 6.38 a.m., except on Mondays. A train from Rotorua, Taumarunui, Cambridge, and Thames will reach Auckland at 5 p.m. daily, and another train, leaving Frankton at 9.45 a.m., will arrive at Auckland at 2.40 p.m. daily.

On the Kaipara line, in addition to the suburban trains, which will be increased, there will be trains at 7.20 a.m. and 3.50 p.m. to Helensville, and a train from Helensville to Wellsford at 10.50 a.m.

The time-table which will be resumed to-morrow will not be that existing prior to the war and during the first part of the war, but the " staff-saving" war timetable introduced in May, 1917. The reason given for this curtailment, which involved a reduction equal to about a third of the normal time-table, was the necessity for freeing as many men as possible for military service. One of the reductions was the taking off of the second Main Trunk express.

The restrictions on the carriage of goods will be removed as from to-day. The position in regard to goods traffic has been much easier this week. A greatlyincreased quantity has been carried, the business men's committee having put through 800 tons of goods. The committee, which has been engaged daily at the Chamber of Commerce since August 19, held its final meeting yesterday. The express train, which left Auckland for Wellington last evening, carried about 320 passengers, there being no vacant seats.

There were eleven passenger carriages in the special express that ran to Rotorua yesterday. The passengers included Lord Jellicoe and party, and about 100 returned soldiers who arrived from the South by the Monowai and the Corinthic.

The train that arrived from Rotorua last evening brought about 220 passengers. An express will leave for Rotorua this morning.

BAY OP PLENTY LINE. RESTRICTIONS TO REMAIN. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WHAKATANE, Friday. Advice has been received by the Whakatane postmaster from the chief postmaster at Auckland, that the resumption of normal railway services on Monday next does not apply to the Bay of Plenty. This means that the service on the Mount Maunganui-Matata line—a Public Works sectionwill remain as during the curtailment, giving the Bay of Plenty only two regular inward and outward mails per week, instead of a daily mail as before the curtailment.