SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 6

SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICES.

Would you please allow me to put before your readers what appears to be an injustice done to workers who live in suburban areas? I refer to those whose work commences at 9 a.m. To take advantage of workers"fares* Vli » 3/3 per week from Henderson to Auck« kud, a girl of twenty-one years must catch thai 6.55 train in the morning, arriving at Auckland about 8 a.m., with an hour to put in walking about. If she catches any later train she must pay £3 15/8 a quarter. I think fares have lately been reduced by a few shillings A quarter, but even so it is a hardship for office workers, who, considering the responsible work they do, as a rule receive small wages, some as low as £1 per week. Now our paternal Government could do something to alleviate the lot of girls who are obliged to live out of town by charging a uniform fare for all workers. I only mention the district I am interested in, but all are groaning under the tyranny of excessive fares. JUSTICE. .*