Pensioners may get cheap Games tickets

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33141, 3 February 1973, Page 16

Pensioners may get cheap Games tickets

The possibility of a special rate for age beneficiaries is being considered by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, and it will probably be able to announce its decision in about a month, says the chairman of the Games ticket committee (Mr J. E. Davies).

“Past Commonwealth and Olympic Games have not catered for this class of ticket, so there is no precedent on which the committee can base its deliberations,” Mr Davies said yesterday. “But the organising committee is sympathetic to requests received from organisations and individuals in this regard, and it is investigating

ways in which this may be done.” Mr Davies said that the committee wanted as many as possible to attend the Games, and concessions for age beneficiaries would be a further implementation of this policy. CHILDREN’S TICKETS “This is not the first time the tickets committee has been faced with establishing a ticket-selling precedent,” ihe said. “Concession prices [for children, which had been i deemed too difficult to apply at previous Games, have been put into practice by this committee.” Last month, the chairman of the Aged People’s Welfare Council in Christchurch (Mr P. N. G. Blaxall) asked the [Games Organising Committee for consideration regarding (admission concessions for i senior citizens to see the Games.