CHILDREN FREE ON RAILWAY
i EXTENSION TO FIVE YEARS
(Our ’Parliamentary Correspondent.)
j WELLINGTON, Sept. 18. 1 ~ A promise to give favourable consideration to n proposal for carrying children free on the railways, up to tho age of five years, instead of three years, was made hy Mr Massey in the House | this afternoon. j
Members brought a good deal of pres.sure to bear upon Mr Massey on this point. Mr Mitchell (Wellington South), moved a. reduction of t’ e vote as an indication that children should be carried free up to seven years, and the five years to which Mr Massey promised favourable consideration, was really a compromise. Mr Mitchell carried his motion to a division and was defeated by 32 votes to 28. Mr Massey mentoned that the cost of free travel to seven years would be £150,000 annually, and that the Department was paying up to £7 per ton for coal. Railway expenses were mounting up in every direction, and if he ! made concessions at one point he would have to recover the money at another point.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1920, Page 3
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