SUMNER TRAM FARES.
BEQUEST FOR REDUCTION. Requests from Sumner for a reduction in fares are often on the order paper at Tramway Board meetings. Yesterday, the secretary of the Sumner District High School Committee wrote asking that the fares to Sumner be decreased in order to encourage more people to live there. The wr.wr■rtated ?hat if the Board consented, aJeputa- | tion would wait upon it with reference to tho request. , .. I Mrs E R. McCombs moved that tno Board receive the deputation. Mr W. J. Walter seconded the motWMr D. Svkes said it would be a waste of time. If people could send their children to a high « could afford the fares. In the present financial position of the Board nothing "ould be done. . , -j Mr J A- Flesher (chairman) ■*» the committee should receive the deputation. 'A good deal of this is advertising," he said. , . The Board decided that the deputation would be heard by the Works ana 1 Traffic Committee.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19624, 21 May 1929, Page 8
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