CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
GREATER EXCURSION FACILITIES. RAILWAY MINISTER’S REPLY. The desirability of affording more generous facilities for excursions during the coming Christmas holidays than were given last year was urged in the House of Representatives on Wednesday by Mr. F. F. Hockly (Rotorua). What was \yanted, said the hon. member, was something more like the prewar conditions. Did the Minister for Railways, he asked, propose to reinstate the week-end excursions to Rotorua during the summer months. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie replied that the matter had been considered., but there had been no improvement in railway revenue as yet to justify the giving of greater excursion facilities to the public. Revenue matters were being watched very closely, and if they were at all justified, greater excursion facilities would be granted. The question of week-end excursions to Rotorua was also being looked into, and applications had come to the department from private sources urging that it would be a good thing to re-establish the week-end from Auckland to Rotorua, but up to the present time he did not feel justified in doing
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 4
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180CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 4
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