RACEHORSES TRAVEL ON TRAINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 299, 19 December 1941, Page 4

RACEHORSES TRAVEL ON TRAINS

RESTRICTIONS APPARENTLY DO NOT APPLY (Press Assn.) Cnrist church. Dec. 18. Restrictions on railway travel which w.Il be imposed on the general public as from next Saturday, apparently ill not apply to racehorses, or their attendants. To-night five Canterbury I rses < nga# iat Um a ... mITi • - ting Club's Christmas meeting will ave for the North Island and next Tuesday about 17 horses are to travel ny special train to the West Coast for the West port Trotting clubs Christmas fixture. Yesterday a Christchurch business man stood in a queue al the lailway -ration lo obtain permission to travel to Dunedin on business. He was given a ti> r;et after slating the reason for ■ lev that railway facilities would be

i;. »ie to bring him home. When the matter of horse travel va_> referred lo him this morning, the railway district tiatii* manager. Mr. G. McLean. said that the restriction on travel over a distance of 190 miles .as only on rellei expresses and special passenger trains. The oidin- \ express passenger .service would ;;»• running as usual from next Saturday Horses going to race meetings travelled by mixed trains and the attvndants went with them. There was nothing in the restriction to prevent me running of spec at horse trams. He said that anyone desiring to go to Dune nn. say. could do so if he could •nv.n •• the department's officers that the trip was necessary, and if there as a. ■ ommodation on the train.