RAILWAY MEANNESS.
To The Editor,
Si F) What's wrong with the Railway Department? It seems when a ticket expires on a given date, if one be travelling by a train and remains aboard after midnight on the date of expiring time of the return halfticket, excess is demanded for the distance travelled after the 'witching hour. Which means that anyone travelling northwards to Te Kuiti is penalised from Taumarunui to Te Kuiti —if he commence his journey on the last day for using his return half. All of which is petty in the extreme, and not a little aggravating to that very large section of the travelling public whose destination lies towards Te Kuiti and further northwards. The guard will insist that he is working under regulations; the Departmental head says the rules must be kept, and the Minister is trying a kind of pay or break game with what should be a public service, not a huge playground for the costly whims of a politician manifestly unused to ordering business procedure. How long, oh Lord; how long?—I am, etc., FATIGUED. |
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 377, 12 July 1911, Page 5
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181RAILWAY MEANNESS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 377, 12 July 1911, Page 5
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