John Arnold<p>_The Evening Post_, 14 April 1925:<br> BY RAIL AND BOAT<br> EASTER TRAVELLING<br> HOLIDAYS AND MATRIMONY<br> Railway travelling this <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Easter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Easter</span></a> has been on about the average of last Easter, a “Post” reporter was informed to-day, in spite of the fact that children have been debarred from moving about the Dominion. The new <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/booking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>booking</span></a> arrangements, which make it possible to reserve seats for long distance journeys fourteen days before the journey is to be undertaken, have worked very satisfactorily at the Central Booking Office, for whereas it has always been necessary previously to form intending passengers into queues—very impatient queues at that—on the last two or three days prior to the holidays, this Easter’s bookings have been spread out over the best part of the fortnight available, and at no time has there been any great rush of business, with its consequent waste of time to those in the queue and inevitable irritation and dissatisfaction.<br> Long distance trips appear to have been popular this Easter, and heavy and full trains have run between Wellington and Auckland…<br><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250414.2.64" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news</span><span class="invisible">papers/EP19250414.2.64</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PapersPast</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Railways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Railways</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Queueing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Queueing</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Holidays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holidays</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wellington</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>