STRANGE, BUT TRUE
ANCIENT TRAM TICKET If tram conductors rub their eyes, one certainly did so at New Plymouth the other day. A passenger proferred a concession ticket of 14 one-section rides issued in 1916, the year the system was inaugurated. Though concession tickets have undergone many variations since then, the ancient cardboard was still negotiable and the owner was entitled to four more rides than he would have been if he had used j one of the. latest concession tickets. Naturally the production of 1 a ticket so old but in such good condition excited thi interest of tramwaymen and on being questioned the owner, a visitor, explained that he had had it ever since he left New Plymouth in 1917. "We sometimes find out-of-date concession tickets being used, but this one is exceptional," said a tramway official yesterday. "When he has finished with it the owner has promised to allow us to frame it."
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1940, Page 6
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156STRANGE, BUT TRUE Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1940, Page 6
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