A NEW DEPARTURE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 2

A NEW DEPARTURE

J RAILWAY TICKET BUREAU. , Tho New Zealand Railway Department opened its first mid-city ticket bureau in the prominently-situated corner shop in. the King's Clumbers, Willis. Street, yesterday morning. Such conveniences are common to other oities of the civilised world, but though frequently urged to have a ticket depot in the oity for 1 the convenience of the publio. the railway authorities of the past always seemed to see insuperable difficulties in giving effeoi to the proposal. The General Manager, Sir. E. T. Hiley, brings along the generally-accepted idea—and 10, how simple it is! the bureau, where, all manner of railway information may be gained for the asking (a great convenience in.'itself), tickets will bo issued, over any section of the Government railways, season' tiokets for suburbanites, week-end tickets, holiday excursion rate tickets, and tourist' tiokets for adults andj children may be purchased at any tirde between, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., on week-days, and 10 a.m. and. 1 p.m. on Saturdays. . On public holidays the bureau will be closed. Not only , can • any description of ticket be secured, but sleeping-bertha may be bocked for the Main Trunk expresses for use on any day within a week of the date of • taking out the ticket, and seate may. also be reserved under the same conditions. The only : combined faro the bureau is _ issuing is that which takes in the train and (lake) steamer fare to Queenstown (Lake Wakatipu). The combined ~ tickets, when concerned with motor-cars, coaohes, and coastal steamers, are procurable at the Tourist Department's Bureau or Thos. Cook and. Sons' office. .

The new Railway Tioket Bureau is handsomely furnished, with the walls illuminated by some very fine vieiws of New Zealand scenery and Native life. There are also writing conveniences _pro,. yided for the public. The bureau is in charge of Mr.,A. Hunt.