HOLIDAY PLANS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23852, 31 December 1940, Page 8

HOLIDAY PLANS

'CLOSING OF SHOPS BREAD AND MEAT SUPPLIES SPORTING ATTRACTIONS Shop hours in Auckland at Now Year will not Ih> the sumo as at Christinas. No late night is to lie observed on New Year's Eve. to-day. and the great majority ol shops will close this evening at o.'iO. until Friday, on which day they will remain open until 0 p.m. No broad will he baked for delivery to-morrow or on Thursday, and ii will he necessary for housewives to purchase sufficient to-day to last until I'riday morning. The same applies to meat. Fruit shops have considerable latitude in regard to hours of business, and some will close early to-day in order that they may remain open on New Year's Day. Others will observe a late night to-night and remain closed tomorrow. All banks and offices of stock and station agents will be closed to-morrow and on Thursday. Given favourable weather, there will be an ample programme of sporting fixtures, as well as the customary trips to picnicking and seaside resorts, to occupy the attention of holiday-makers in and around Auckland during the next three days. The principal attraction to-day is the third day's programme of the Auckland Trotting Club's summer meeting at Epsom. For followers of bowling there will be post-section play in the Auckland Bowling Centre's annual fours tourney on the Carlton green. To-morrow. New Year's Day, and the following day, the Auckland Racing Club wiil continue its summer meeting at Ellerslie. Baseball matches will he played between Buckett's Gymnasium Baseball Club, the Pioneer Women's Club in Canterbury, and Auckland teams at the Domain. An interesting event to-morrow will be the New Zealand Tourist Trophy motor-cycle race on Waiheke Jsland. Organised by the Auckland Motor-cycle Club, it i\ill begin at Ostend shortly after the first boat arrives from Auckland. and cover a 20-lap course. There are 15 entrants. TRIPS BY MOTORISTS HEAVY TRAFFIC LIKELY With a prospect of settled weather continuing over the holidays, many motorists are likely to be abroad over the New Year period. Careful planning and economy in advance have made it possible for numbers of parties to undertake motoring holidays in spite of petrol rationing, and although the trips arranged this year are generally shorter than those made in the past, the main routes are likely to be as busy over the New Year as they were over Christmas. Although many people who left Auckland immediately prior to Christmas are still away on annual holidays, others were obliged to return for the few days' business between Christmas and the New Year. Some of them will bo setting out again to-day or to-mor-row, probably for .shorter trips than usual, but their cars will increase traffic that is already heavy. Motor-cars showing signs of longdistance travel were not infrequent in the citv vesterday. Some carried luggape piled high on the back and .many obviously belonged to campers either visiting the city or passing through. TRAVELLERS BY RAIL EXODUS BEGINS TO-MORROW After spending their holidays in Auckland, thousands of visitors from the south will soon be returning home, the majority of them by train. Bookings of scats on expresses leaving ior Wellington were very heavy yesterday and most trains have been fully reserved. , The regular afternoon and limited express trains will be sufficient to eope with to-day's travellers, but the exodus will begin' in earnest to-morrow evenlie* when heavily-laden trains leave for Wellington at 7.1 o. 7.:C> and b.o. Manv additional trains will also run on Thursdav, which is exported by railway officials to be one of their busiest days. Kve ii larger numbers will be rotuining'to Auckland after New Year's Da v. and it is likely that extra trains will be running for some time.