RAILWAY TRANSPORT.
The most drastic restrictions ever imposed on railway travelling are now announced. From next Friday a person will not be ;11>Ie travel by rail unless he or -die can show that the journey is necessary for essential business purposes only. It is implied in tile railway advertisement thai the further check in passenger traffic is designed with a view to improving the ■jiiofls -ervice. If this is so it will prove to be some coinpen-
s;11i»»11 I<>r having to slay at home, Ini while a very largo :t mount '>l railway travel is i|iiitt! unnecessary, restrictions nil goods traffic hears liardlv upon the whole community. No great loss will result from the reduction in non-essential passenger traffic, hut if essential ■ roods cannot he delivered then the country will he in a parlous slate. The management is now on much more sound lines than
it was in I lie first place, and a tier allowance is made for motor passenger traffic there should really lie no great hardships to complain of.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 452, 29 July 1919, Page 2
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172RAILWAY TRANSPORT. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 452, 29 July 1919, Page 2
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