TROOPS ONLY.
Trains on Sunday. COAL ECONOMY MOVE. .... t . C~~ ~ ' -■ '• r The cessation of local Sunday train services, except for the transport of troops from Papakura Military Camp to the city and the Waikato and back, is announced by the Railway Department, as an economy measure to conserve coal supplies. Apart from troop trains, only Main Trunk expresses will be run on Sunday, when the new move takes effect. ARMY OFFICER’S COMMENT. * Major W. W. Dove, Assistant Ad-; jutant and Quartermater-General at Northern Military District headquarters, when asked by an “Auckland Star” representative to comment on how the cessation of Sunday suburban i trains would affect troops, said: — “We told the Railway Department that there will be 3000 men in Papakura camp, and 1500 will be on leave each week-end, and that we must have a troop train from Papakura to Auckland and one from Papakura to Hamilton each Saturday and similar trains from each of these centres back to the camp on Sunday night.’ 1 On the subject of trains to carry the public to and from Papakura camp he had no comment to make.
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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 4, 24 May 1940, Page 6
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