TRAM FARES FOR INFANTS
AMELIORATION ADVOCATED.
Some weeks ago Councillor John Fuller raised tb ® question in the City Council as to wl .ijther it would not be advisablo to omit 'charging tram fares for children unj 71 they were at least five or 6ix years of ' age. At .'present all children over th? fee."years, of age have to bo paid for, and Councillor Fuller thinks it a distinct -w idship on parents with a young family' to be handicapped. It seemed to Mm tWiit everything was done to check people 1 laving large families. On the occasion irhen it was brought up,. Councillor "Fr/Ucr had the sympathy of the whole ccuncijU but 1 nothing, was done to change tho exfc iLibg order of things.';.;''' On T fensday evening Councillor Fuller brouchit: the matter up at the City Council rinij; k ; more, and -reminded- the Mayor that Ji is proposal to raise tho fare exempti»i a aee had the practical approval of tb/)Xehtire: -icpuhci). 'The' 3£afor • ad-, mittejl /that the matter had been overlooked, a/a d that it would be inquired into at once T . Iti understood that the fare exempjge in most cities is either five or six f'isrs. . .
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2788, 5 June 1916, Page 3
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199TRAM FARES FOR INFANTS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2788, 5 June 1916, Page 3
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