REDUCED RAILWAY SERVICES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16234, 2 April 1917, Page 6

REDUCED RAILWAY SERVICES.

' The reduction of railway scr* vices which has been announced, to take eitect from May Ist, is - I .drastic, as the public were inI: formed beforehand it would have to be. As the object, hdwever, is to,.release men for the war, no quarrel will be made with the inconvenience which it must cause, provided that the reductions of the Department are in the 'best > way. There is no reason . why our troops at the Front should suffer every inconvenience and', those at home none lat all. The Department's statement, referring to alterations that;are contemplated )in the Main Trunk service of the South Island, has been telegraphed; in such ambiguous form that we shall have to wait for further information before we can know whats it means, but an attempt should be made to retain a oneday service between Christchurch' and Invercargill. Practically sll Sunday trains, with special trainsfoi* races, sports, andiapricultural shows, ( are to bet discontinued, special inducements which lead people to travel for pleasure are Ho be,withdrawn. while trains and concessions which enable workers to go to and from their occupations : in, c the?* cities will very r>ro-" i perly jjbje-continued. New Zea* .ladders more probably than anv other r»eoi>le in the worlds ,i.' They will onlv be living in a *way more like their fathers,', and manyjaf them will have moro i

money for the war. if-tlx—travel less.