FREE TRAM PASSES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19161, 18 November 1927, Page 13

FREE TRAM PASSES.

CRIPPLED SOLDIERS' REQUEST. "That this meeting instructs the secretary to send a letter to the Labour Representation Committee and the Citizen's Association requesting them to instruct their candidates at the forthcoming Tramway Elections to continue the issuing of free passes on the trams to our blind, limbless, and disabled soldiers, and soldier patients in Rannerdale Home and Cashmere Sanatorium, as issued by the present Tramway Board." The foregoing was a motion which, when put to a meeting of members of the R.S.A. last night, was carried unanimously. In speaking to the motion, Mr G. W. Lloyd said the United Burgesses' Asociation had advocated the abolition of all free tramway passes. Following upon the resolution passed by the iiurgesses, newspaper correspondence had taken place, but little had come of it, although it was understood that the Association did not include returned soldiers in its resolution.

Mr H. Fleck, who seconded the motion, suggested that members should pledge themselves to support the candidates for the Tramway Board who were likely to support the motion before the meeting. A member: As soldiers we had no politics—we are backing our crippled comrades, not the standing candidates !

The chairman (Mr R. A. Cuthbert): The Association appreciates greatly the liberal attitude the Tramway Board has taken up in the past, and 1, personally, think we can look' forward with confidence to being allowed the same privileges as we have had in the past. Another member: The passes granted by the Board have been greatly appreciated, they mean a great deal to us, for they enable us to get to places which, under other circumstances, we could not reach. It is, therefore, with the greatest confidence that I ask for the unanimous support of the meeting , After further discussion the motion was carried unanimously.