SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 7

SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.

DEPARTMENT’S ATTITUDE. HELPING THE FINANCES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. “The Railway Department, by running Sunday excursions, is helping to put the State’s transportation business on a more satisfactory financial footing. That is practically the Departmental attitude towards the business as a commercial concern,” said Mr GG. Stewart, chief publicity officer for the Department, when asked to reply to recent protests made against the running of Sunday excursions. “We did not initiate the Sunday excursion movement,” said Mr Stewart. “It had been in existence long before any railway excursions were run on Sundays, the people being catered for in this respect by various motor organisations.” Mr Stewart said that if certain people could travel on Sundays and others were unable to do so, owing to the failure of the people’s own transportation service to supply the necessary facilities, there was a definite distinction raised as between one section of the community and the other, that was, between the people who had their own private transport facilities and those wh,o owned nothing but their share in the country's transportation system.