GETTING BACK TO NORMAL.
STATEMENT BY GENERAL MANAGER. Wellington April 30. Asked as to when a full railway service might be expected to be running again, Mr R. W. MeVilly, General Manager of Railways, said it would take a day or two before everything could be got back to normal, but a considerable extension of flic services would be immediately apparent. The first express train from Wellington to Auckland since the strike would be run on Saturday, leaving Wellington at 12.45 p.m. From Auckland the first train would leave at 7.10 p.m. on Sunday, while other services would be resumed as soon as arrangements could be made. In the meantime the suburban services as organised during the last few days, would he carried out and added to as conditions permitted. Besides the ordinary passenger trains, a special train would lea.vc Wellington for Palmerston North, conveying the officers and men from (lie naval squadron. A train had been arranged to leave Plimmerton, bringing children in to visit the warships, and later a train would bring children from the districts nearer town. To-morrow, said Mr MeVilly, he hoped to resume the service on the Wairarapn. line, running a train to Masterton and Woodville.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2727, 1 May 1924, Page 3
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201GETTING BACK TO NORMAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2727, 1 May 1924, Page 3
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