CATCHING THE MONDAY TRAIN
■_ • J SOLDIERS' EARLY WALK. Soldiers from Trentlia'm and Featheri Eton Camps who visit' Wellington on week-end leave, find tlie absence of trams to connect with the troop trains on Monday morning a serious inconvenience. The first train for Featherston leaves Lambton Station at 6 a.m., and at 6.15 the train for Trentham departs. Many of the soldiers have to come from L.vall Bay, Island Bay, Karori, and other suburbs, as well as from outlying; parts of the city. As it is, every man has to walk. On Mon.'dav mornings a thousand'men in khaki • RTfy:e on-.foot at tha railway statioxi, • and. -ftfcnc; of them leave their, homes fourso as-iiot to miss tho ■ /train. • - Accommodation in . the . city is very limited; ■ which makes it difficult for the men to stay in, town oversight in order to; shorten their morning march, to thtf train.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 9
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145CATCHING THE MONDAY TRAIN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 9
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