TRAMWAY CURIOSITY
Ticket of Forty Years Ago A memento’ of the days when tramway passengers in Wellington paid their fares by tendering tickets, receiving in exchange printed receipts, has been forwarded to “The Dominion” by Mr, T. C. Watson, of Palmerston North. The ticket is reproduced in the illustrations section of this issue. ■I was much Interested in your history of the Wellington tramways and the illustrations showing the progress made in 30 years,” writes Mr. Watson. “I am enclosing what may be regarded qs a curio—a tramway ticket purchased 40 years ago and never used. These tickets were sold in cards or blocks and a receipt was given in exchange whei) tendered for fare by passengers. “The old horse trams were primitive in design and the seats narrow and hard, but in those days we were not so hard to please, being content to get there, with a good deal of switch-back motion at times to vary the journey.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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160TRAMWAY CURIOSITY Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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