TRAINS ON RACE DAYS.
To the Editor of the Globe. Sie,—The approaching race week being a festive season here with all classes of the community, may I beg the favor of a few 1 ines in your valued columns to draw attent ion to a hardship that is about to be inflicted —unwittingly I am sure—upon a hard worked section of society. I allude to clerks generally, but to those in banks specially. In accordance with time honored custom I assume that the banks and mercantile houses will keep open till noon on the race days, and I observe by advertisement that the last train to the course will leave the city at 12.40. Such being the case, X wish to point out that numbers of the unfortunates before mentioned will be unable to witness the races at all, as their means do not permit of their going otherwise to the course than by rail, and, after close of business it requires a clear hour to square up and get away. Trusting that our excellent traffic manager will take a hint and extend the time of the last train, say by twenty minutes. I am, &c., CLEEICUS. Christchurch, November 3rd.
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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 3 November 1877, Page 3
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200TRAINS ON RACE DAYS. Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 3 November 1877, Page 3
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