ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY.
The Railway Department had a heavy day on Feb. lst for in addition to arranging a timetable to suit the trotting races, there were large numbers to be conveyed to more distant stations. The first train, at nine o'ciook went right through to Norris* Gully, and this was a very large train, conveying a large contingent for the Motupiko sports, a still larger number who availed themselves of the run throhgh the tunnel and then returned to picnic in the bush at this end, and a very large party of tbe Wesleyan
Sunday School picnicers, who got out at Wai-iti, bound for Watson's bush, \shere they had a real good time. There was a food deal of "rumbling at the delay in connection with this train, which reached its destination about three quarters of an hour late, but even railway people cannot perform impossihilitc-s, and with only a certain amount of rolling stock it is not possible to cope with extraordinary traffic without some inconvenience, and better that than that any undue haste should lead to accident. It seemed however that stoppages were longer than really necessary ..
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Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9097, 15 February 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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189ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY. Colonist, Volume XLI, Issue 9097, 15 February 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)
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