“STAY PUT” APPEAL
IGNORED BY LONDONERS ON AUGUST' BANK HOLIDAY. SCRAMBLE FOR TRAINS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.36 p.m.) LONDON, August 3. Thousands of people who ignored the Government’s plea to stay put for the Bank Holiday and packed railway stations, fought for tickets and scrambled for trains, were forced to trek sadly back at nightfall because there was nowhere to stay in the packed seaside towns.
Others got lots of fresh air but little to eat. The Ministry of Food refused to send extra supplies to holiday towns. Many people were turned back from the South Coast because the defence area police kept a double watch on stations and roads. Thousands spent the holiday at the Thames riverside. The “Daily Express,” in a leader, said “Doughty London, which showed the big cities of the world how to take bombs, sot the worst, example with holiday trains leaving in seven sections With coal stoked in locomotives, while miners gave up free time to dig more, and petrol, bought at the cost of many lives, was burnt on the roads. Next time the Government wants the public to stay put on a holiday, it must issue an order, not an appeal."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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