TWOPENNY SUNDAY FARES
TO COMMENCE ON SUNDAY. The greater proportion of those people Svlio travel on "the municipal tramcars on Sunday will be pleased to learn that from and including Sunday next the minimum faro for adults will be 2d., instead of 3d., which latter fare was imposed some months ; ago, when the coal supplies were not j coming forward as they ordinarily do. Tho universal 3d. fare did not find favour with the public or with the majority of the members of tho City Council, and for some time thero weve fortnightly discussions round the council table on the subject. Finally, after a good deal of fis to' the merits and demerits of raising tlie Sunday fares at all, a compromise was arrived at. by fixing the Sunday fares (on all cars except the "specials") sit a minimum of 2d., as from September 1.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3178, 31 August 1917, Page 5
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145TWOPENNY SUNDAY FARES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3178, 31 August 1917, Page 5
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