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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 8 (December 1, 1928)

Christmas

Christmas

The busiest season of the year is now upon us. Although a festive time for most, Christmas means a period of hard work for the majority of railwaymen, a testing time in which the efficiency of the system is tried out to the uttermost through the swelling tide of traffic that reaches its high-water mark on Christmas Eve and stays at flood until well through February.

Reports from many sources indicate that the extensive preparation work put through in recent months to make the services better known and increasingly acceptable to the public will bear fruit in a substantial expansion of traffic, both local and from overseas.

In particular there should be a big contingent of visitors from Australia as a result of the extensive publicity campaign organised by the Government Overseas Publicity Board, and now being handled by Mr. H. J. Manson, New Zealand's Trade Commissioner in the Commonwealth.

The progress made in operations and equipment during the year serves as an assurance that the national transportation machine and the men who work it will stand up to the task, and succeed in bringing satisfaction to the large numbers of additional passengers that this season's page 6 traffic is expected to bring us, as well as to the customers of our goods and parcels services.

It is to be anticipated, in particular, that the facility of night expresses in the South Island, for the first time available during summer holidays, will encourage a great deal of new inter-island travelling because of the travel-time saving which their running effects.

To all travellers on our system we extend the season's greetings, and assure them of the best service from every one of our staff in the effort to make any trips they take by train pleasant and comfortable, together with a guarantee to do everything possible to secure for them that safety for which the New Zealand Railways holds so enviable a record.