BANK HOLIDAY EXODUS
Britain Sees Many Sport Gatherings (Eeceived 3, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. All records were broken by the esodus from London and other towm for Bank Holiday. A feature was the amazing increase in car travel; 23,000 motors passed the main coast roads from London on Sunday morning. The French holiday resorts also were" crowded with English visitors. Trains and aeroplanes were loaded to capacity. Generous spending was symptomatic of the widespread trade revival. Eighty-three thousand hdlidaymakers attended the international athletic meeting at the White City and 100,000 saw nine first-Sass cricket matches. Lord Burghley, at a dinner at the White City, deelared that many people were rather disillusiioned regarding the League of Nations but athletes were building up something worth while — a League of Nations of Sport.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 168, 3 August 1937, Page 7
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