RAILWAY CONCESSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 6

RAILWAY CONCESSIONS.

:■; -V.FREE:SCEbO^SMSON -TIOKETS/;- ; :"/ ■ Amended regulations,. gazettedruthis week,' ;■ provide' 1 '.that , free- * quarterly '.; tickets;''' available ;for distances not 'exceeding ; sixty" miles, may : be- issued to /school pupue■;.-■■ not over nineteen "years.'.of .-age .as^follqwst—;'. :To ' pupils,'. attending • the-public...: primary; .-. ';] .schools, from railway. ■ stations -where ; " ;: there is -no primary school in the vicinity,- ■'■■- /and only to the station in the vioinity ■-■ : of the nearest primary-school., '.; ..■:■■■. : J~:,:. rTo pupils who'.are-holders, of.-scholarships : tenable at a district'high school, or se-. ,'"■• condary' school, -;as- defined 'by the 'Bdu-i' ; ■• oation Aot, 1908,: to enable them -to 'at- - I -■"_■ .: tend any such .district high school or,' ■. ■•■■ secondary school.; ■. < ■; • ,-,-- ■ - ..•:■:; •■. . To pupils of secondary schools,: as defined by. r . •'■ ;.-.?he Education. Act, 1908; and. of the .se-,. ■ ■ condary ; departments rof .district highschools, to enable'them to attend one \or / other of such; sohools,- whichever : shall' -■■■.-'be nearest. :' '■'' ."•. ';''.'■.."■. ."■'"." •■~ : - ■■' v '' To pupils attending private primary or secondary, schools subject to.inspection in accordance with' , Section ; 170'bf the Edu- :' cation .'Act, M9DB. :.':■ ,' -i,.... ~.. ; , r •' To holders of frea ; places ?at a technical ': school recognised under' the, regulations i ; ■ for manual and technical /instruction.- "' ■ To pupils oh .the roll'ofa ; public or private : , ;./ primary or.6ecohdary.school , or" of.a dit" . . triofc high: school :trayelliri(;. to attend > .-, ■..classes',:-. ,at: ospecialfr i equipped ' '/ manual trainingicenaes .and recognised• under the; TCguations. for.'manuaf ,and ; '; technical,'.instruction, / v .-. .1 ;.■': . Application for these, tickets must be accoin- '~ panied by a certificate ■in . form/, and dulr signed by .the.nead.teacher, .principal,ordirec- / tor, as the case may be, having-charge of the ; "■" school attended. These tickets are not Hrans- 1 ferable, and are available' for use bythe holder I '' only when trayelling:to ! and; from"school fot^ 1 the. purpose of reoeiring tuition; "If Jflfc jriU ;lie-forf««ed?i ;i