HEAVY RAIL TRAFFIC

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 10

HEAVY RAIL TRAFFIC

MANY VISITORS TO CITY WEEK-END ATTRACTIONS Rail traffic during the week-end was particularly heavy, owing to the at* tractions on Saturday provided by the representative Rugby football match played at Eden Park between Auckland and the Maori touring team and the Pakuranga Hunt Club's meeting held at Ellerslie. The commencement of the school holidays was also responsible for an increase in the passenger traffic. Trains arriving in Auckland on Saturday were all well patronised. - The special combined train, which arrived from the South at 6.8 in the morning, brought 500 passengers from the Rotorua and Te Kuiti districts. It left Auckland again at 11.30 on Saturday night. The Te Kuiti section was due to arrive at its destination at 4.5 yesterday morning, and the Rotorua section at 5.35. The usual Sunday excursion train to Hamilton yesterday morning consisted of 12 cars and a van, the excursion train from Hamilton to Auckland being of similar length. Both returned to their respective places of departure last night. The Auckland station presented & busy scene last evening,' when the mam platforms were crowded with hundreds of travellers and their friends, including members of the Maori touring Rugby team and their supporters. ® manager, Mr. Kingi Tahiwi, the coach, Mr. W. J. Wallace, and several players were among the passengers for South. The limited express left Auckland with two extra sleeping cars and three extra second-class cars, a train to of 12. As a result the New Pl.vmouttt section, which is usually attached to the limited express, had to be a patched as a separate train. It made up of six cars and a an.