HOLIDAY-MAKERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19000, 24 October 1923, Page 10

HOLIDAY-MAKERS.

TRAVELLERS BY TRAIN, TRAM. AND STEAMER. The fine weather experienced on Saturday Sunday, and Monday, was an imitation to thousands of people to make holiday, and the railway trains, the Iranis, and the ferry steamers were freely patronised. 'J he railway traffic on Monday was veryheavy, and many of the passengers who joined the express from tile north ut Oamaru could not secure seating accommodation, notwithstanding the. fact Unit two extra carriages wore put on. The crush was increased as other passengers boarded the train at wayside stations. The bookings outwards from the Dunedin station on Monday were : —-Outrnm (Labour Day picnic) 1296; Wingatui (Protestant Alliance picnic), 353; Gore races,' 60; Oamaru races, 478; station between Palmerston and Dunedin, 1238; between Mosgiel and Dunedin, 77b; Port Chalmers 744. The cash takings on the trams on Mon day (£3lO 12s 7cl) constitute a record for Labour Day. The next highest figure is £292 6s 3d, the amount taken on Labour Day, 1919. On Labour Day last year the receipts came to £228 12s 6d. During Saturday, Sunday, and Monday it is estimated that between 3XO and 4COO passengers travelled in the Ferry Company's steamers —the Wairekn and Waikana—to the various harbour resorts. The heaviest traffic was on Monday, when over 2000 excursionists were carried. This number was much larger than (he number for the corresponding day last year. Some inconvenience was caused on one of the homeward trips on Monday afternoon through the Customs official declaring that the ferry boat was carrying her full complement of passengers when she reached Company's Bay. In consequence of this about, 150 people were compelled to wait there for the following boat. Several regular travellers, including the captain of the ferry steamer, were not at all satisfied with the decision, maintaining that: the boat was not carrying her full complement. The Customs official, however, was in charge, and his decision had to be obeyed.

take the water, but force it to flood the rial, is unprofitable and destructive. Continued improvements have been made by the City Council since the taking over of the scheme, but funds have 'never been forthcoming to take in the system sufficiently.