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School season tickets made available for return for three months from date of issue, instead of expiring on quarter-days. Athletic teams and pleasure parties of not less than twenty travelling together, rate reduced. Theatrical, concert, and circus companies in parties of ten and upwards allowed to travel first-class on second-class fares. School excursion fares for over seven miles reduced. Fares and season-ticket rates, Burkes to Dunedin and Pelichet Bay, and vice versd, and between Caversham and Cattle-yards, reduced. Return tickets between Napier and Te Aro and Wellington made available for two months. Ordinary return tickets for distances eleven to twenty miles made available for return for one calendar month. Return tickets for distances over ten miles made available for break of journey, and provision made for extension of time for which available on payment of difference of fare. Holiday excursion tickets at 2d. per mile first class and Id. per mile second class introduced. Season-ticket rates for monthly, quarterly, and half-yearly reduced. School season tickets : Age-limit raised from nineteen to twenty years. Students of agricultural and technical colleges travelling together in parties of five for field instruction granted return tickets at single fare. Theatrical, concert, and circus companies in parties of six allowed to travel first-class at second-class fares. Athletic teams : Golfers included, and number of party reduced from twenty to twelve. School excursions : Rates reduced and made applicable to factories and friendly societies, and stop-over fares provided for school excursions. Charge for mail specials of more than one large or two small cars reduced. Newspaper reporters' tickets made available for use by any reporter solely employed on staff of a bond fide newspaper. Single fares on Whangarei Section reduced. Fares from and to Te Aro and stations within ten miles thereof reduced. Fares between Newmarket and Green Lane and Remuera and Green Lane reduced. Fare, Te Aro to and from Lower Hutt, reduced. Fares between Oamaru and Waiareka Junction reduced. Fares between Pelichet Bay and St. Leonards reduced. Fares between Auckland, Kingsland, Morningside, Mount Albert, Westfield, and Papatoitoi reduced. Fares between Newmarket and Mount Eden, Kingsland, Morningside, Mount Albert, Avondale, Remuera, Green Lane, Te Papapa, Onehunga, Otahuhu, and Papatoitoi reduced. Fares between Mount Eden and Kingsland, Morningside, Mount Albert, and Avondale reduced. Reduced fares between Clyde Station and Bluff and Ocean Beach granted. Distance between Ashburton and Tinwald to be counted as two instead of three miles. Excursion tickets from Remuera, Ellerslie, Penrose, and Otahuhu to Rotorua and Okoroire, and from Onehunga to Okoroire, arranged. Travellers' annual all-lines tickets : Provision made for transfer from holder to bond fide employe of same firm on payment of a fee of 10s. for each transfer. Ticket issued at reduced rate for North Island; transferable and non-transferable tickets issued ; also tickets for one or both Islands. No previous provision. Season tickets : Regulation fixing conditions and charge for transfer of a ticket or the replacing a lost season ticket inserted. No previous provision. Navy recruits : Cheap fares arranged for boys proceeding to ports to be examined on or to join any of Her Majesty's war-ships. Tickets of students of agricultural and technical colleges made available for return for one week from date of issue. School-boarders : Age-limit and notice clause removed; tickets granted without special notice, and irrespective of age of boarder. Apprentices' arid pupil-teachers' age-limit for tickets at half-rate raised to twenty-one years. Teachers' Saturday season tickets : Regulation amended to permit of tickets being used by teachers proceeding to examinations. Technical school and commutation tickets issued at reduced rates. Tourist excursion tickets North, South, and both Islands obtainable by any person at reduced rates. Technical schools commutation tickets: Age-limit removed; tickets issued to any person attending a technical school registered with the Minister of Education. Judges of show exhibits granted tickets at 2d. per mile when proceeding to shows for the purpose of judging exhibits. School season and technical school season tickets made available for distances not exceeding sixty miles. Defence Forces conveyed at reduced rates. Reduced fares (2d. per mile) granted to delegates attending meetings of religious bodies. Stage system on the Whangarei Section abolished ; ordinary fares and regulations substituted. Distance for charging fares between Whangarei and Kamo to be counted three instead of four miles. Workmen's tickets at 2s. 6d. for twelve trips issued from Lower Hutt and Petone to Wellington and Te Aro. Excursion tickets to Hanmer Hot Springs issued from Dunedin and Inveroargill. Fares between Te Aro, Wellington, and all stations beyond Makakahi reduced, consequent on opening of Wairarapa line to Woodville and the computing of the charges on the basis of the