QUESTION OF CHEAP FARES
REQUEST TO MINISTER
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, April .19
A deputation approached Hon. Taverner with a request that persons who from public employment (such as firemen, tra-mwaymen, etc.) are prevented from taking advantage of railway excursion rates at Easter and Christmas, should have such privilege at other times. The Minister said the request was not new. It had been made previously by Post and Telegraph employees (involving some ten thousand men) and dairymen. If anything comprehensive were done it would mean making excursion fares available throughout the year, a lug problem. There were no regulations under which one section of the community as apart from other sections could he granted concessions. He would look into the question whether it was possible to approach the matter from local bodies and employees point of view for he realised many had to take their holidays in the winter months when cheap fares were unavailable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1929, Page 5
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