ANZAC DAY RAIL TRAFFIC
EASTER RUSH DIFFICULTIES Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. In a statement today the Minister of Railways, the ITon. W. B. Thverner drew attention to the fact that Anzac Da)*, April 25, will this year fall on the Friday following Easter Monday. “This proximity,’* said Mr. Taverner, “makes the problem of dealing with through passenger traffic on Anzac Day somewhat more difficult than it has been in previous years. “The Act provides that Anzac Day shall be treated as a Sunday. It is proposed, in order to conform with the spirit of the Act, to suspend the whole of the railway time-table with the exception of the ordinary Sunday trains and the express trains between Auckland and Wellington, in the North Island, and between Christchurch. Dun edin and Invercargill and Christchurch and Grey mouth in the South Island. These expresses are the minimum requirements to provide the essential through services and connections to and from the inter-island ferry steamers running on that day. - ’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 907, 26 February 1930, Page 11
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165ANZAC DAY RAIL TRAFFIC Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 907, 26 February 1930, Page 11
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