UNIVERSAL PENNY FARE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 22 January 1913, Page 6

UNIVERSAL PENNY FARE.

■'■■ ■■:;''.; 'Am THE MAYOR. :; : • . The:,univorsal penny fire for our trams, as proposed by the Labour party, Was a matter to which a reporter yesterdays drew tho attention of the Mayor (Mr. D. M'Laren). Will your candidature for tho; Mayoralty as Labour - representative • necessarily meari that'you aro'bound to >. support the > universal penny ft re, Mr. M'Laren? was a question' asked; •■ ■'.•'■• "Mr. M'Laren' said that ho would v liko first to' say-in 1 roforencd'ito tho -matter ;: that tho statement, made in a leading.; article in this paper on January H,thai ho was chairman' of a committeo in tho Trades Council which brought down tho; proposal, was entirely wrong. Ho was not chairman of any > 6uch committeo, Mr. M'Laren added that from what he had learned since his return to Wellington ;ho' thought this paper had been misled 'on ' the matter.. ' Would you say* then, that the Labour> candidates for the City Council will not bo bound to support the proposal V ■:■■■■. Mr. M'Laren declined to go as far na that. "All the information I have got," h© said, "is that it has. not been decided." ' -.■ fit was stated in the "Evening Post/' prior to' tho statement in The Dominion. that Mr. M'Laren was t.ho ; chairman of a committee of the Trades Council which had brought down recommendations.] .