CHEAP TRANSPORT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 108, 29 December 1931, Page 6

CHEAP TRANSPORT

FAMILIES TRAVELLING BL RAIL It is by now fairly well known that the new second-class return fares by train cost on an average slightly less than a penny for each mile of travel. But it is not so generally recognised that even these low fares become very much lower when a large family sets out for a holiday to a place twenty miles or more away by rail. The reduction commences if both parents and three children under sixteen years of age travel together. In

that case one of the children is carried free. The arrangement of course applies only to second-class travel, and provides for the purchase of a ticket for the family for a total cost equal to three times the second-class excursion return f are for the distance to be travelled, and at least one of the parents is required to travel with the children. Supposing a father and mothe'r and their six children under 16 years of age made a trip under these conditions, it would cost them only the price of three second-class excursion return fares. In other words, four children would be carried free. It is this arrangement which justifies the railway slogan: "The larger the family the grea'ter the concession?' These concession are now in considerable demand, for there are ten thousand children in New Zealand belonging to families with from eight to fourteen children under sixteen years of age, while there are over 100,000 children belonging to families having three children or over in each family.