British People Looking Forward To The Most Lively Holiday Since The War
LONDON, April 15 (Rec. 6 removed for the first, time since able for holiday motoring and 1 most of the country, Britain is e est postAvar holidays this Laster. Traffic by road and rail is expected to break records. Two thousand two hundred special trains which will run to holiday resorts in all parts of the United Kingdom are expected to carry well over 1 ,‘200,000 passengers. Bookings to France and Belgium had already set new post-war records by Thursday afternoon, and to meet the heavy demand for air passages to the Continent the British Overseas Airways Corporation has trebled its normal services. By Saturday, 16,000 tourists will have travelled on tlie lour cross-Channel steamer routes to Paris. This is the largest number of Easter travellers to Paris since the war. In Britain itself bookings for the south coast and west of England sea-
> pm).—With lighting restrictions before the war, more petrol availline, warm weather predicted for ?xpeeting to enjoy one of its livcli-
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Wanganui Chronicle, 16 April 1949, Page 5
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