P.W.D. SPECIAL TRAIN
Over 200 Men From East Coast Camps CHRISTMAS LEAVE About 210 Public Works Department employees from the East Coast railway construction camps and from road and other construction work I north of Napier rode in the "Public Works Holiday Special" on Wednesday . evening. many of them travelling as far i as Wellington. Although the train was not a free one, it was run purely for the Public Works employees who commenced their Christmas leave upon ceasing work on Wednesday, and was arranged to relieve the sudden congestion on other trains. The train, . which was run by the Eailway and Public Works Department working in Conjunction, commenced its journey at Waikokopu, picking up groups of men from points along the track, until when the train left Putorino it had 210 men and families oi board. At Napier a number disembarked, but there were several men who lived farther south, a great majority pf those envployed on Taupo road work and the Tuai hydro-electric development work coming from Wellington. With the addition of those who connected with the special at Napier, and minus a considerable number wlio had left there, the train passed through Hastings for the south in the- early hours of yester-day, with 150 passengers on board. '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 78, 24 December 1937, Page 3
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