Rail Traffic Restrictions.
There has been, as yet, no heavy booking for passenger travel on the railways for the holidays. The 100mile restriction still applies in the North Island, and only people who can give satisfactory reasons for travelling can proceed beyond that distance. Holiday relaxation does not rank as a satisfactory reason, and supporting evidence of convincing nature must be supplied before permits are granted. The present rule is that no reservations are permitted more than 14 days ahead, and this will be observed for the Christmas holidays. It is not proposed to run any trains additional to the normal North Island expresses. People who try to travel in 100-mile hops will .face considerable difficulties. When they leave the train at their 100-mile limit to book for a further distance they will find someone else in their seats when they return to the train.
To be Released from Army. In accordance with a decision of the War Cabinet, the Army authorities are carrying out a survey of men in military camps with a view to making experienced freezing works hands available to the industry for the season. The Minister of National Service, Mr McLagan, said last evening that a maximum output of meat was required for overseas destinations. In view of the urgency of this demand on the industry it had become necessary co locate every available man with freezing works experience. “Those at present engaged m other industries, including essential industries, are being released and directed to the freezing works, but even so, there will be insufficient men to staff the works adequately,” said the Minister. "Consequently the War Cabinet decided that, with certain exceptions, men at present in military camps who have freezing works experience are to be released to work in the industry for the season.” Mad Rush For Goods,
Evidently attracted by an announcement that certain articles which had been almost unprocurable for some months would be on sale, a crowd of several hundred shoppers assembled outside McKenzie’s store in George Street, Dunedin, on Wednesday, and so great was their keenness to take advantage of the rare opportunity that they pushed through a plate glass window. A woman received a painful scratch, and minor damage was done to stock included in a window display. The shoppers were tightly packed in the doorway, and it is difficult to understand how they escaped being injured, when the plate glass against which they were being pressed by those on the footpath collapsed in splinters under their Goods such as cups, saucers, enamelware and fully fashioned hose which .have been difficult to procure for some months, attracted the crowd. Within a few minutes of the doors .being opened practically all the china and enamelware had been purchased,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1942, Page 2
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