EASTER WAS MOBILE
ELECTING a pair of scissors S and clicking them in the preparatory way his profession affects, the barber said, invitingly, "And what did you do at Easter?" We gave him a short resume and asked him, as the saloon convention demanded, the same question. "I'd saved up a bit of petrol and, what with the boy’s leave allowanceyou know, the petrol they get as returned soldiers still on leave-we went for a run in the old bugs. Not far, of course. The days of ill \he up, Bill; she takes ten gallons’ haven’t come back yet, and those tyres of mine are pretty senile. Still, we had a lot of fun." * * IS retrospective view of this Easter was probably fairly general. At any rete, it was the first really mobile Easter
New Zealand has enjoyed since. war broke out. During the war, the Easter season did not mean, as it does now, a happy time for kneeling on suitcases and pulling the straps tight. But this Easter, freedom from war’s worries was a signal for mass travelling. Every steamer, train and plane had full loads of passengers, bound for somewhere or other. And the baggage-men-the trampers who shoulder a 70-pound pack with apparent enjoyment-left the towns and cities for the hills and the bush in greater numbers than for many years. The only people not able to put up the shutters and call it a day-or twowere (in the main) the farmers, But they will take their ease, if they want to, in May and June. It is reported that petrol coupons for those months will have double their face-value during either month "to assist dairy farmers with their holiday arrangements." With the return of the great majority of members of the Armed Forces, the demand for transport during Easter wes huge and all services worked to full capacity. Railway stations up and down the country were thronged from Thursday to Monday inclusive, if not more so; hotels in all quarters of the Dominion were well booked; in fact, everything indicated a more than gradual return to the strenuous pleasures of the ‘short peace-time holiday. ae
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 13
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359EASTER WAS MOBILE New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 13
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