WEEK-END TRAVEL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23482, 20 October 1939, Page 10

WEEK-END TRAVEL

HOLIDAY ON MONDAY MANY EXCURSION TRAINS HEAVY BOOKINGS REPORTED. VISITS TO MILITARY CAMP With unusually 'heavy r bookings for Labour Day week-end, Monday being a holiday, excursions to different parts of tlie province, special trains to the military camp at Hopuhopu on Sunday and Monday, and another train bringing more than 700 soldiers from the camp for -tveek-end leave in the city, the next few days will be among the busiest of the year at the Auckland railway station. The booking office at "the station was exceptionally busy yesterday, and halfway through the afternoon over 1000 passengers had bought tickets on excursion trains which will travel to Rotorua, National Park, Waitomo, Whangarei and Te Aroha. Eotorua Popular Most popular of the trains was that which leaves for Rotorua at 11.45 tonight, and the number of bookings, 330, was stated to be much greater than usual for the Labour Day weekend excursion. Nine cars probably be incorporated in '<; he train. On a second train which leaves for Rotorua at 1.25 p.m. to-morrow there were 180 bookings yesterday. The train for Whangarei, which loaves at 2.10 p.m. to-morrow, lias always been popular with excursionists, and 220 passengers had booked seats on it yesterday. This train will return to Auckland at 10.50 p.m. on Monday. Booking on the train for Te Aroha, which will depart at 1.10 p.m. to-morrow, were 120, while a similar number had been received for National Park and 60 for Waitomo, on trains leaving at the same time. These trains arrived back l in Auckland -late on Monday night. Camp Trains { ) j / The special train for visitors to the military camp at Hopuhopu will leave Auckland at 10.15 a.m. on Monday, arriving at about 1 p.m., and, leaving on the return journey at about five o'clock, will reach the_ Auckland station at approximately 7.45 p.m. The Sunday train will leave Auckland slightly earlier, at 10 a.m., and) commencing the return trip at 5.5 p.m., reach Auckland nt 7.35 p.m. Both trains will travel by way of. Newmarket, stopping at the principal stations as > far as Mercer. The number of soldiers who will leave the camp by train to-morrow is 1066, and of these 766 will conie to Auckland and \3OO will go to Hamilton. The train for Auckland will leave the camp siding at 1 p.m., arriving at 3.44 p.m.. and departing from Auckland on Sunday at 3.2o'p:nv. The train for Hamilton is scheduled to leave at 1.10 p.mi, arriving at 1.42 p.m., leaving again for the camp at 9 p.m. on Sunday. ~r;