KELBURNE TRAM TICKETS
10 THg EOWOR. _ Sir,— lt is well known that the regulations of the Karori and Kelburne Tramway Comparfy, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, are rigid. In consequence of our infirmity as human beings likely to change some of us who ride (or rode) on tho tram are in the soup, as Lucullus puts it. The tickets at present issued forbid the use of the white side for up-rides. Well and good ; the company- wants the counterweight of the down-rider, we all see that. But n. v forbid us to ride on the tram at all"/ The fee for the ride of a ticketholder never hao been more than two pence ; yet the company will not accept two clips off tho white side (the loss of a penny a ride to thu passenger) as a fair adjustment when all the blue or purple clips are gone. I am thinking of establishing a, society of disfranchised trairindcra. Wo shall meet not more titan once v day to discuss the reasons for our^ disfranchis^nicnt. They arc aa varied as the spots on a tui'ts tail, or the perforations in a poabage-stainp. In my ] case it all came of a. friend more triendly than wise giving me a ticket with one purple and two while clips unused on it. I have never been able to balance my going tip and coming down since, although I rode regularly down and up. At present I have eleven white clips to the good, or, rather, so the bad, since 1 See no prospect of getting rid of them, except by legal process, in forma pauperis or in mediae res, or whatever it is called. The perfectly respectful girl in tho office won't take them ; she is perfectly firm on that- point ; sho has her orders. 1 assures j.<, sir, thai quite a number of us have tickets we don't want and would gladly part with at a sacrifice—to the tram company at two white clips, for an up -rids. I nave five carda
myself, carrying eleven white to-be-clips; I should like those gentlemen and ladies who wish to join such a society as I have indicated to mention in their letters of application their qualifications in this respect. Meantime, several of us, lite pendente, are using the good old round 1 about city trams to get to Karori. —•I am, etc., F.V.W. 30th April.
KELBURNE TRAM TICKETS
Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 9
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