Reserved Train Seats
Sir, —I am astonished that the travelling public have not protested against the Hon. Mr. 'Semple’s decision to fine intending railway passengers 3/- to 5/for failing to give 24 hours’ notice of abandonment of a proposed journey. People do not book and pay for seats in trains and then abandon them just for fun. Only unforeseen circumstances —and they generally occur at the eleventh hour—cause people to abandon journeys. In these days of restricted travelling facilities the unclaimed seat is often a godsend to the harassed lastminute traveller, but, of course, the Minister, in his reserved “birdcage” or Ministerial carriage, would know nothing about that. Apparently the tax of 1/1 on each seat has now become a tax of 1/1 on each passenger. The Minister is getting more than his pound of flesh. I suggest that two hours’ notice should give ample tame to allow of an abandoned seat being disposed of as an unreserved seat, or to allow of its being reserved for a further 1/I.—l am. etc., FREQUENT VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES. Hastings, May 8.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 4
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179Reserved Train Seats Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 4
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