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Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1919, Page 4

There are people who hold it no crime to "forget" to pay a tram fare if the conductor should happen to overlook them. Apparently, however, a resident of Stratford does not come within this category. Among his mail the other morning the manager of the Auckland tramways received an envelope containing the sum of threepence in stamps. There was no communication enclosed, and the stamps were left to tell their own story. It can only be assumed that thev w'ere intended as conscience money by a visitor—a juvenile, if the superscription on the envelope can be taken as a guide—who either deliberately or accidentally omitted to pay his fare, The manager state? that this is not by any means the first sum he has received in this way, and that at times as much as £1 has boon sent with a brief note containing the words, "For fares not paid." CLINCHER CROSS MOTOR TYRES are preferred by most judges, because they stand up to hard wear on all roads .aad-undw all coaditiona. ■ 97