TO HELP MOTORISTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 279, 25 November 1941, Page 6

TO HELP MOTORISTS

RAILWAY CONCESSION

| FREE RETL'RX TRANSPORT (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Monday. The Minister of Railways. Mr. ' Semplc. announced to-day that as a measure to compensate motorists in j some degree for prescnt-dav limitations on car travel, it has been 1 decided, subject to certain lenient conditions, to grant free return transport of motor cars w Inch are conveyed by rail at ordinarv freight i rales on the outward journey. The ; new regulation will operate from i Monday, December 1. J To obtain the concession it will be necessary for two adults or the equivalent in passenger fares to hold : rail tickets for the same journeys as I b - v 'he car. The period within !whi eh the concession applies has ■ l;,cen fixed at three months from the commencement of the outward journey. It will not be obligatorv to return a car from the identical station to which it was originallv j railed, but where re-railing takes i place at another station the distance of which to the starting point ; cxceeds that of the outward journcv an appropriate charge for the extra mileage will be made. Written application for the concession will i need to be made beforehand at the station from which the car is to be i forwarded and the completion of a i brief certificate embodying details of | ihe car will be required.