RAILWAYS BUSY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22820, 30 August 1937, Page 8

RAILWAYS BUSY

TRAFFIC' AT WEEK-END MANY CHILDREN TRAVELLING That it was a long time since there had been so many school children travelling by train as during the present school holidays was the comment made by an official the Auckland railway station on Saturday morning. Since the schools closed last Friday week the railways have been unusually busy, even for a holiday period, and passenger traffic has been considerably in excess of that experienced during the May holidays, when the prevalence of infantile paralysis prevented many parents from taking their children away from their homes. Both inward and outward expresses were very well patronised during the week-end and the excursion trains and from Hamilton yesterday each carried about 500 passengers. A special train left Auckland for Wellington 011 Friday evening and will return this morning with between 200 and 300 basketball players who will take part in the Dominion championship tournament to be held in Auckland this week. They will return south by a further special train leaving Auckland for Wellington at 3.5 p.m. on Sunday next. A party of 160 primary school boy« from different parts of the province, who have been taking part in the Rugby football matches for the Northern Roller Mills Shield at Whangarei during the past week, also returned to Auckland by special train from the North on Saturday afternoon. Many North Auckland residents also took ad| vantage of the opportunity to visit city for tho week-end.