OVERLAND SERVICES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16619, 24 December 1924, Page 9

OVERLAND SERVICES.

RUSH OF PASSENGERS

ALL ROUTES KEPT BUSY

There lias been a phenomenal rush o£ passengers on the various overland services during tlie past few days, and the local companies are being kept busy night and day coping with those who want to move about the district. Extra ears are daily being run through to Wairoa, and Napier, and the traffic on the Coast lias been so heavy that many extra ears have been necessary. U’n Monday the Gisborne Motor Service Company carried 42 passengers to Napier, while yesterday 36 ncre taken. the popularity of tlie afternoon service has been apparent, throughout the rush, for of the 36 passengers taken to Napier yesterday, 2F were carried by the afternoon eais. Extra ears were put on. two "baby’’ Cadillacs and an ciglu-sealer accommodating the passengers.

Traffic on the Coast has been very heavy, and more people have conic to Gisborne to do their Christmas shopping than ever before. Both in the mornings and afternoons extra cars have been necessary, and yesterday afternoon three ears had to be sent up to Tokomaru Bay. A record on the Tauraiiga run to Auckland was created this morning, when the Gisborne Motor Service Company despatched 28 passengers in their ears. The growth of passenger traffic on the overland routes during the past few months has been phenomenal, and although several new r eairs had been put on the road in preparation for the rush, the company lias been hard taxed to provide accommodation for all the passengers ottering. However, up to the present the ears have fulfilled their tasks without a single hitch, tlie various services running absolutely to time-table, like a well-managed railway service. Cars will run to Napier and Wairoa and to the various other parts of the district as usual during the holiday season.