TRAMWAY CONCESSIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 11

TRAMWAY CONCESSIONS

'.. Sir,-^Knowing how willing you always are 'to -ventilaft'', suggeetiofls for ' thb bStteTfrnefat of the l&bouring'claus, 1 venture to inquest 'your assistance in ;thu following :" — At 9 prefie"ttt therft is 'a <ionces^ion 1 to 'workerri using the trams up ,to B?am. I'.hia^conceflßioit i& also- eajoy.ed^ by the higheivpaid male portion.' of tho business but the female portrtn j =^embr'acing <girl beginners, with a, ,WAge of fs 6d,and 10s a Weekj who are due at place of bueineeti at 9 d;ttf. — avfe obliged to pay ordinary* fates. .Now, sir 1 , t. know -for a .fact that in hlauy, caeefi h'dlf ' their wdges are 'absorbed in' tram fares, and this at the outlet of a c^eer, is very discouraging. It is well knjiwn that jjafentft pi theee 1 gii'k are obliged fc\ Jivb olit of town,' Wife to rents ar« ■afliallet', and, .a* >■>'■ ;con*aq(ienco, the tram is a" matter of absolute necessity. ; : - I would respectfully suggest that tfie ! Workers' car concession be extendVd to j.ft a.in., so as^to reach the younger and ! lew paid clasß> No doubt a few people other than woi'keie would be carried, but, when the great benefit on . the other hand is taken, into consideration^ ib will more than compensate for such a contingency, 4s it will be a lasting and moat appreciable help, where most ueeded.--I am, etc., • TRANSIT. Wellington', 3iet January, 1913.