NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS
RECORD HOLIDAY TRAFFIC. (Peb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, January 11. The Prime Minister has niade the following statement: —“The Christmas and New Year holiday traffic for 1920-1921 constituted a record. The number of passengers carried on the North Island lines was 482,000, and on the South Island and Westland sections 407,000 —a total of 889.000. The long-distance traffic has been the feature of the business, and it is pleasing to report that all demands on the department were satisfactorily met. Generally speaking, the trains maintained punctuality, and the only accident recorded occurred to a passenger who attempted to board a moving train at Bluff, with fatal results. “The heaviest passenger traffic was in the Wellington district, Auckland coming next, and Christchurch and Dunedin districts following. _ A large number of special passenger trains were run to meet local requirements, and additional express trains were run on all linos of the North and South Islands. I congratulate all hands in the railway service for the satisfactory manner in which the Christmas and New Year business was dealt with.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18141, 12 January 1921, Page 5
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