TRAIN TRAVELLING.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 July 1919, Page 6

TRAIN TRAVELLING.

‘ ESSENTIALS ONLY. IM'_INISTER’S NEAT REFERENCE TO _; NATIONAL RACES. f the early prohibition of railway travelling except in essential cases were made by -Ministers of the Crown when replying to a. Pailniersfon Nortfi deputation on"TVednesday afternoon.

Sir James Allen said that the matter {had been befiore ‘Cabifet more‘ than once, and was up «again on Tuesday. -The Minister for Railways had recommended, and Cabinet had approved, the revision of the present regulations. The Minister for Railways had been of the iopinion that when the “out” Was made ilzhe incionvenience Would Teslrrict ftravelling, but it had: not done so, and he proposed that passenger traflic should be limited to essential travelling and that the savings should be placed» at the ‘disposal of goods. Mr Harries said it was proposed E 0 cut passenger traffic down as much as -possible——-to put only a. certain numIber of carriages «on the trains, and carry only those sort of people who 'wei'e obliged to" be carried. A member of the deputation: Race-g«oers-—-do'- ybu -caill ‘them essential! Mr Herries: Well, no; but if a man ‘has an aunt seriously ill about the second week in August we will have ito carry him.—-N.Z. Times. " ..