CASH SAVING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 192, 7 April 1932, Page 2

CASH SAVING

NGRTH SHORE TRAVELLERS INTEND BOYCOTTING BRIDGE. EXPENSIVE SEASON TICKET. "SYDNEY, Sunday. North Shore travellers regard the charges for the extension of season tickets to the city from the opening of the bridge to the end of the month as the last Straw in. the complicated and costly privilege of using the bridge. 0 Season ticket rates announced recently reveal that they will be dearer than buying tickets every day. The exact impost ori season tickets to cross the bridge will be 10s firstclass and 8s second class, for the period from the opening till the end of the month. Anyone wanting to go as far as Town Hall station will be charged 15s first and 12s second, an amrizing impost. Owing to the Easter holidays, the majority of travellers will make only seveh returri trips across the bridge, ffom Moiiday, March 21, until the 31st. Paying'for each trip at lOd a day first class and 8d a day second cla'ss, this will total 5s lOd first class and 4s 8d second class, showing a saving of 4s 2d and 3s. lOd respectively over the season ticket rates. Boycott Intended. Indignant at the impost, many travellers intend to boycott the bridge until their season tickets expire on the ferries ahd will alight at North Sydney, walk down to Lavender Bay and catch a ferry to the Quay. Season tickets issiie'd to the end of the month to the old Milson Point station will be available, without extra charge, to North Sydney, and ferry tickets will also he available from Lavender Bay service runs every ten minutes in business hours, arid 15 miriutes irt the slack hours. "HQrhsby" asks:— - Is it possible that the Co-ordina-tion Board so lacks co-ordination in its owii Works that it has mistaken my daily train for the bridge special? If not so, and the board is serious in its "stand and deliver" demand for 10s extra on my season ticket — far more- than brdiriary cash fares would total— theri I warit the board to know