RAILWAY EXCURSION

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 8

RAILWAY EXCURSION

■, : (To the Editor.) • Sir,4-I was -very pleased: to read in your advertising columns tha.t the Railway Department is" running a special excursion train: to Auckland on vJuly 6, the occasion.' being [ the /North/ Island versus South Island football match. >; May I offer. i suggestion which , I think worthy of adoption: Tliat>the Department for a-,small additional'fee allow excursionists to -"^top over" until Monday or Tuesday. There are doubtless many others like myself who will find the long journey to Auckland: and back pressed into three days very tiringj and an extra day's rest in Auckland would tend to make the trip more attractive and- pleasurable to those-\vhbSare not bound to return in time.for their business duties on tho Monday.: If my suggestion is-given effect to. it ■vvould, I am' sure, materially augment the. revenue and induce many others to.take the trip.—l am, etc, . ■ : v. ■ v■-.;' PONEKB.

-'* A.comparison of the positi6n>of relief Workers when tho Hospital Board gave rations and now when tho Unemployment Board has this duty is made by ''Plucked Pigeon.'' ''A single ;mau formerly had, in addition to his allotment of work, 18s 6d per month; now he gets 4s 6'd per mouth, a difference of 14s per month. A married man with no family got 22s 6d per month; now he gets 7s 6d per month, a difference of 15s. A married man with one child got 27s 6d per month, now 8s 6d per month, a difference of 19s; with two children 30s, now 10s, a difference of £1. The tax was formerly only 3d in the pound. Now it is four times that, and only 20 per cent, of relief workers get any rations at all." The correspondent contends also that the free boots really cost the relief worker £2 2s 6da pair— 10s for the day he works, for them and 32s _6d for the cuts made in.thirteen weeks. ;