TRAMWAY CONCESSION TICKETS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 8

TRAMWAY CONCESSION TICKETS

o LIMITATION OP PRIVILEGES. The point as to whether holders of tramways' concession tickets should ho permitted to use their tickets as part payment for a .journey exceeding the limitation of the concession, was disciis?«l at last nijjht's meeting of tie City Council,

In this connection Hie Tramways Committee recommended that: "When payment for a journey is made by concession ticket, any extension of the journev 6hall be paid for at the rates prescribed for cash fares, unless suitable concession tickets be tendered for the balanr* of the journey," i

The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) considered the alteration asked should bo made. The' existing system did not tend to increase the finances of the tramways The idea of n concession ticket was that a passenger should use it for a stated journey". Councillor C. 11. Chapman thought that the adoption of the recommendation would load to fewer pnoplo using the trams. He spoke of the nossi-. bility of a person washing to I'ide.nn extra hundred yards over the limitation entitled him by his concession ticket. There was somo discussion on this point, councillors considering it was unfair to demand double payment of a fare. Councillor Hutchison considered that tho proposal meant the increasing of far«s. The council divided on !'io recommendation, which was ndoptel by 10 votes to i.