RAILWAY CONCESSIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10059, 29 January 1909, Page 4

RAILWAY CONCESSIONS.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, January 28.

The following railway concessions are gazetted: Thirty-one free second-class quarterly tickets, available for distances not exceeding sixty miles, may be issued to school pupils not over thirteen years of age as follows : (1) To pupils attending the public primary schools, from a railway station where there is no primary school in the vicinity, and only to the station in the vicinity of the nearest primary school; (2) to pupils who are holders" of scholarships, tenable at a district high school or secondary school as defined by the Education Act, 1908, to enable them to attend any such district high school or secondary school; (3) to pupils of secondary schools as defined by the Education Act, 1908 (and of the secondary departments of district high schools), to enable them to attend one or other of such schools, whichever 6nall be nearest; (4) to pupils attending private primary or secondary schools, subject to inspection, in accordance with section, 17 of the Education Act, 1908; (5) to holders of free places at a technical school, recognised under the regulations for manual and technical instruction; (6) to ' pupils on the roll of a public or private primary or secondary school or of a district high school travelling to attend classes held at especially equipped manual training centres, and recognised under the regulations for manual and technical instruction.