INTER-ISLAND TRAFFIC.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4501, 6 September 1930, Page 4

INTER-ISLAND TRAFFIC.

KUGCESiS OF RAILWAY SYSTEM. May, 1025, the Railway Deparement introduced a system providing for the through booking of passengers, parcels and goods by rail and sea between stations in the North and South Islands. Prior to that time passengers travelling from one Island to the other had perforce to suffer the inconvenience of obtaining their boat tickets at one- or other of the towns or ports where offices of the Steam Ship companies were located. Similarly the existing facilities for the through transportation of pareels and goods traffic were not sufficiently attractive to encourage the growth of any great volume of traffic between the two Islands. Under the new system these disabilities have disappeared. Passengers from ope Island to the other are now able to obtain steamer tickets and berth reservations together with their railway tickets at the station from which they commenced their journey. Similarly a consignor at a station in the North or South Island, by simply filling in the usual consignment note, is assured of the prompt conveyance of his goods to any station in the other Island, ll will readily be seen that the provision of such a convenient system of communication between .he two Islands would be practiealIv assured of success.

Slime idea of the extent to -which the railway through hooking system Inis established itself in the favour of the public is gained from the fact that since its inception in 15125, 31,153 passengers and 50,035 tons of goods have been dealt, with.