CONCESSION FARES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 87, 7 January 1920, Page 6

CONCESSION FARES

PLEA FOE NINE O'CLOCK WOEiqiE. A Wellington remit bearing upon concession fares to workers was discussed at yesterday's meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute. It read: "That ■ the Government be asked, in granting concessions in tram fares and railway fares to workers, not to differentiate be- '. tween S o'clock and 9 o'clock workers." Mr. A. C. Blako was the mover. He said that about 1G years ago the Government, in granting permits to city councils to run trnmcnrs, made regulations granting special concessions to workers travelling to their place of occupation up to S o'clock, The regulations applied to all the cities of the Dominion. Whatever reasons the Government might havo had for'imposing the 8 o'clock limit then, he did not think it had the same reasons to-day. Some of the workers who went to work before 8 in the morning earned far moro than many who went between 8 nud 9. There were in,the 9 o'clock class many young teachers who wero receiving low 'salaries. Not only teachers, however, were affected, but n great , many members of the general public. Sure'lv it was time, Mr. Blake submittal, that the distinction observed up to the present was abandoned. ' Mr. N. IT. S. Law (Auckland) seconded tho motion, which was carried.