Lost Railway Tickets

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 11

Lost Railway Tickets

Sir,—l was interested in the letter in your issue of to-day, re lost railway'tickets. A few weeks ago, my son, a lad of 10 years, while hurrying for his train at Lambton, found after he had boarded the train that he had left his ticket on his desk at school. This explanation was given to the guard; nevertheless, his name and address were taken. We are now asked to pay 2/2 (the single fare for a child is 10d.), because he travelled without a ticket. Why should we be asked to pay this amount when we had already purchased a quarterly ticket at the beginning of the tend? The quarterly ticket surely covers all journeys to and from school in that particular quarter. As it is, I feel the Railway Departmeat has treated us most unfairly and ■Unreasonably in asking us to pay over again fbr something we had already paid for. (The ticket was not lost.) A moment’s search through the books would show that the ticket had been issued, and the child should have been given a reasonable time in which to produce it—l am, etc., STILL ANOTHER VICTIM. December 2.