POST-HOLIDAY EXODUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17360, 6 January 1920, Page 6

POST-HOLIDAY EXODUS.

CROWDED TRAINS DEPART.

HEAVY INWARD • TRAFFIC.

FREEDOM FROM ACCIDENT.

The traffic on the various railway lines yesterday indicated clearly that Aucklanders who have been spending their vacation in the resorts near at hand, such as Rotorua, Thames, and Te Aroha, are fast returning to the city, and that many of the visitors from the South are also turning,homeward. , \

The incoming trains were very heavily laden, the afternoon express from Rotorua bringing no less than 400 people. The two eairy morning expresses irom. Wellington each brought about 300 passengers, and th<! afternoon train was also heavily laden.

Full trains outward were the rule. Yesterday's 1 p.m. «apress for Wellington carried about 200 pi&jengers. ' For the evening expresses there was again a great demand at the barriers for passages, the 7.10 train being despatched with about 300 passengers, and the 7.40, with 360. <, ■ With the resumption of the usual service, the traffic on the suburban lines has returned to the,ordinary level. 'Since Friday morning last about 10,000 passengers have' left' Auckland for longdistance journeys, and the suburban traffic, including that to the racecourse, would bring the total outward traffic to nearly 20,<XX). Adding the inward trains of all grades, some 30,000 persons must have passed over the city platform in the four days, and to the credit of the railway officials, this exceptional stream of travellers, has been provided for and handled without any accident.