FARTHEST FROM WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1924, Page 4

FARTHEST FROM WORK

I,!VINC l 1)!) MILES AWAY. LONDON. March The number of London business men who live long distances from their niliccs i' increasing rapidly. A Hunt hern Hail wav official told a •• Daily Mai!" reporter yesterday that manv season ticket-holders travel dailv I rotii limn iicmoiitli—ll)7.', miles—ami back at night. Oencrally the journey i■; citjlil s I liree liolll's. A very large number coma up I •'••III Hriglitnn--over oil miles—anil from Margute. I’.am-gnle. and other places in Thane:. Dam-gato is S 7 miles ir-lit l. ne.’int and Margate 7i n iies. Ap'ianuitly the iongr-st journeys iiunla daily by l.midnii business men ar- i .-a.c from Hrisfil (117 miles) nr I I'ineinghnm IDS miles). One lang-ili'tauce traveller writes: We do mu idle a-vvav the time in the t rain. Some of u- lake work home, iioinro vie have gone half a dozen miles i.ui carriage is like a busy oT.cc. Doi nmeiiis arc -I rc.v ii on the seals and ilo nr, si ii- I . with our attache cases as de-ks. we are hard at work with pen and pencil. WEEKS A YEAH IN Til A INS. Living a ling wav troiu our work .Id--, a.-. :,i ii nia i-i it with an addeil ...... t. We fee! none the varr-e for • p-qnlin : w’-al aMVj’.mt In abent v.iek'. in ibc vear in trains. Mr Oordou Sclfriiigo -.aid he did mil belie,c j: was good lor one's’ business live a hue; way |'i:un ii. **l»:st it rra.llv dc|: mi- on a 'emu's icmperaiiioi;. I’aia.iudlv I heii'-va in being •i.r .l ibe - g'lt ’ i swig, r.-soors-gr erso^mroo*