Our Railways

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 26, 11 January 1929, Page 25

Our Railways

Family Concession Tickets T is not generally known that the Railway Department grants a liberal concession to parents travelling, accompanied by their children, for journeys of not less than 20 miles. The price of three adult second-class return fares provides tickets for. father, mother, and ALL thei.: children under sixteen yeurs. of age. . The following examples are’ typical of the savings made possible by the concession rate: Two parents and four children, aged 14, 13, 10 and 9 years, may make the return journey between Wellington and Napier at a cost of £6 5s. 6d.-saving £4 8s. 8d. on the ordinary fare. A family of similar proportions travelling between Christchurch and: Dunedin would pay £4 16s. 8d. -less than the ordinary rates. The provision of such a liberal concession will doubtless be a boon to many families, who would ‘otherwise be debarred from the. benefits of an occasional holiday jaunt.