TRAMWAY CONCESSIONS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 9

TRAMWAY CONCESSIONS

SiL-The Tramway Board is keen enough for business to offer workers special concession rates when travelllng to and from work. I am interested to know whether the fact that these ?,ooS eS v, lons a A e - of no value unless used by workers travelling to the city six days a week is due to an oversight or a political bias on the part of the board.—Yours, etc 40 HOURS IN FIVE DAYS. December 1, 1945.

~Ji, r ’T7^ he tl Tr ® mway , Board has acted very unjustly m making Sunday passengers pay cash instead of allowing f m i tSu Use the concession tickets as usual. The concession cards are wanted on }y f 9J a five-day week and two nips could be cut out and the Tramway Board could get its extra revenue by .fewer rides on concession tickets. It is not encouraging people to go to church on Sundays when they have to pay double the amount in hard —Your^ek; 6 week>^ ay Passengers pay. December 1,1945. BE FAIR ‘ i u*'" ln ? r ,? ased costs must he borne bv the public, and the Christchurch Tramway ] | oard considered that the abolition of the use of concession tickets on Sundays was the least irksome to the fewest people,” said Mi H. Kitson chairman of the board, when the above letters were referred to him.]