A LONG TRUDGE HOME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 6

A LONG TRUDGE HOME

Many thousands of Dunedin people must have been glad that yesterday was not a working day and that they had an opportunity to recover from tiredness which followed a greater amount of walking than most of them had done for years. These were the people—a large proportion of them from the outermost suburbs—who, because transport was hopelessly inadequate to cope with the extraordinary demand, had either to walk to Hancock Park or miss the display. Until the programme was well on its way the main routes to the park, from the city to the beach, contained a continuous stream of people steadily moving towards St. Kilda. When the last rockets had been fired, there were as many walking in the opposite direction. It was slow and laborious going, on hard pavements and in the dust and fumes from the thousands of cars which passed. Some sacrificed dignity and sat on kerbs and in shop doorways while they rested. For many the last stage of the journey was the most difficult, and children in not a few • instances heard midnight striking, perhaps for the first time in their lives, as parents pick-a-backed them up the hills.