RAILWAY TRAFFIC BOOM
EASTER AT NEW PLYMOUTH. LAST YEAR’S FIGURES DOUBLED. The Easter railway traffic at New Plymouth has positively boomed this year. Up’ to Easter Saturday the week’s reservations were 311 against 127 last year, and for the month 655 as compared with 295 in March, 1932, which included the Easter period; March 1933 did not include Easter, the period falling in April. Well over 500 persons left New Plymouth yesterday on the various trains. . The special train yesterday/ morning took 117 to Ngaere and 44 to the Hawera trotting meeting. There were 110 outward passengers on the mail train, three full second-class carriages, part of a fourth and one and a-half firstclass carriages being reserved. On the Auckland train which left New Plymouth yesterday 125 persons had reserved at New Plymouth, Inglewood and Stratford, 70 leaving on the train at New Plymouth. The special train to Wellington at 10.10 p.m. had 91 reservations, mostly from country stations, but a large number who had not booked boarded the train at New Plymouth. The mail train arriving last night had 162 passengers at New Plymouth. There were 206 on the train when it left Marton. , The increases of the week ended Saturday were well sustained yesterday.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1934, Page 4
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