"THIN END OF WEDGE."

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 9

"THIN END OF WEDGE."

TRAM CONCESSIONS SOUGHT.

WORKERS' TICKETS AND PASSES. BOARD DECLINES REQUESTS.

Several requests for concessions on the trams were before the Auckland Transport Board to-day. The Mount Albert Terminus Ratepayers- and Residents' Association asked that workers' tickets be. made available on any week day and that these be altered to twelve-trip tickets provided they were used on trams leaving the termini before 8.30 a.m.

Mr. Baildon said tickets were at present issued on Mondays and Tuesdays and numerous changes would be necessary to bring about the alteration ..desired.. At present these tickets were checked by colour changes made and this facilitated the work of conductors. It would not be in the interests of the service to make these changes and the request was accordingly declined.

Free passes were sought by the Community . Sunshine Association for Children attending.its schools and a request on similar lines was received from the Society for the Protection of Women and Children on behalf its members. "We are being inundated by these requests," said Mr. Baildon. "If we grant one that is only the thin end of the wedge, and I do not know where it is going to end."

Mr. Entrican said it was time the public knew that the board was not in a position to be generous, tu view of the state of its finances it could not grant these concession requests.

Mr. C'oyle suggested as a means of helping in the transport of poor children attending the sunohine, schools that a donation be made to. the funds of the association.- .

Mr. E. Morton said this was a duty that should fall upon the State or Education Department, while the Mayor reminded the board that the association had a street collection and was well supported in its deserving work. Both applications were rejected.