REDUCED RAILWAY FARES.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. , Certain concessions in fares are to be made by the Railway Department. These embrace a reduction in the ordinary 'season ticket rate for distances up to 20 miles, and in annual sectional tickets for distances up to 150 miles. Commercial travellers holding annual sectional or "all lines" tickets will in future be. aWe to obtain season tickets for their samples for the lines for which their passenger tickets are available, and at charges considerably less than are now ruling for excess luggage. Rates on the carriage of brown coal for distances of over 75 miles are being reduced. A valuable concession is also to be made in the carriage of ground phosphates.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 35, 9 February 1906, Page 3
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120REDUCED RAILWAY FARES. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 35, 9 February 1906, Page 3
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