RAILWAY COUPONS.
:NEW'-SYSTEM •OF "PURCHASING:, I TICKETS. i,'.' -A-fow weeks ago Mr; A. -S; Biss.brought (..' before'; the' Chamber;, of Commerce the. i inconvenience - incurred- in • the public '.: beiig only' able toVpurchase railway tick- . ets.at.the stations-a'few,minutes before train 1 ' left.'--.-To this inconvehience, '■ beon^adopted,.of issuing ooupons'.afc certain-places,: in town which caii 'be exchanged - at', the booking 'office forUhe ordinary , ticket.' v... -.; Tho .• New"." Zealand "Express 1 . Company. ~ has to; the Chamber of .'.ConK ";. merce-notifying-thafc it has-been, appointed one .of the agents 'in" Wellington to -issue. , • coupons,''and ' pointing - out that'luggage may bo . checked ;on - production of the . coupon, instead of . having to .wait, iis for-; merly,until the iticket itself/islproduced. . : '-.The Ichairm'^n'^ofvyesterday's .asisetiiig' . of.'tha council-"bfHho 'Ch'amber v of Commerce, (Mr. A." ;B.' Mabin) said it was a . . ' opneession, but, did not go ' half flaw. .. . . -'to' 'got* thelv • tiofc- . etsr-in . exchange' '.for coupons at the .last minute'.:,. It was really only a concession ..-"-'to ; those ;who wished to', check "their .luggage. . The . opinion was generally expressod 'that-tne 'eoupon 'system.' did not '... o)eet. the case satisfactorily. •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 7
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170RAILWAY COUPONS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 7
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