TRANSPORT OF RELATIVES
PROBLEM AT AUCKLAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND. Sept. 5. Army transport and other officials have recently experienced considerable difficulty in providing transport for next-of-kin meeting returning servicemen. On occasions as many as 14 members of one family have been at the station, and the job of returning these people to their homes has strained the transport system to breaking point. An appeal is now made to next-of-kin to restrict the parties requiring transport to four or five. The Auckland R.S.A. has received many protests from next-of-kin of returning servicemen concerning the early liour of the arrival of trains. The' association president, Mr A. P. Postlewaite, has taken up the matter with the Minister of Railways, Mr R. Semole, pointing out that many elderly people living in the outer suburbs are finding it almost impossible to be at the station at 6.30 a.m. to greet their returning men 'oik. The association feels that it is most undesirable that such people should be deprived of the thrill they have been patiently awaiting for years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25941, 6 September 1945, Page 4
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