THE BOXING DAY HOLIDAY.
PASSES OFF QUIETLY.
Although yesterday was almost uni« versally observed as a close holiday in Wellington, there were few attractions to keep people in town during the day, and a great part of the population left by train or tramway, for the outlying districts. For excursions and picnics the weather conditions obtaining were perfect. Holiday-makers resorted in numbers to all the beaches, paries, .and gardens' surrounding the city, and the sporting and other attractions organised at various popular.resorts were each well patronised. The railways, as will bo seen by a return given below, bore a considerable proportion of the holiday passenger On the , trams, as a whole, there was little evidence of holiday, overcrowding. The station staffs, of the Railway De* partnient had another busy day yesterday coping with the pressure of holiday traffic. . iwo thousand passengers booked from Lambton .Station for Upper Hutt and intermediate stations, and about 200 people went, over the hill into the Wairarapa. itom Thorndon Station 1090 passengers booked to Paekakariki and stations nearer at nand, ami 461 set ont on longer jour-
A return prepared by the Corporation Xiamn-ays Department provides a comparison of receipts during Christmas weak i ™ -^ ear and ,ast y ear - From Decemoer 20 to December 2G inclusive, 1909. tramway revenue totalled .£2BOO 12s. 5d the maximum takings on any one dav .being ■ £m 2s. Id., collected on-December 24. From December 19 to December 25 inclusive, 1910, revenue totalled .£3003 14s. The maximum revenue for one day was £6oi If.. Id., collected on December 24. Christmas week this year thus produced a revenuo exceeding by £203 Is. 7d., the amount collected during the corresponding period of the previous year. JDn December 25, 1909, double fares-were charged, whereas this year ordinary rates were levied on December 25. . :
On December 27, 1909, revenue totalled .£683 Ss. Gd. : On December 26 last, the sum of .£563 4s. 6d. was 9ollected. Special cars on Sunday morning last carried 948 adult passengers. The midnight car carried 136 pa'ssengers. . . •
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1010, 28 December 1910, Page 4
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336THE BOXING DAY HOLIDAY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1010, 28 December 1910, Page 4
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