SCHOOL CHILDREN ON TRAINS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 3

SCHOOL CHILDREN ON TRAINS

NEW REGULATIONS.

A new regulation regarding the issue of tickets for school children on. the Government Railways is gazetted. It reads as follows :—

Free second-class quarterly tickets, available for distances not exceeding 60 miles, may be issued to school pupils not over 19 years of age and residing at a distance of not less than three miles from the school, as follows: 1. To pupils attending- the public primary schools from railway-stations where there is no primary school in the vicinity, and only to the Nation in the vicinity of the nearest primary school. 2. To pupils who are holders of scholarships tenable at a, district high school or secondary school as defined by the Education Act, 1914, to enable them to attend any such district high school or secondary school. 3. To pupils of secondary schools as defined by the Education Act, 1914, and of the secondary departments of district -high schools and of technical high schools, to enable them to attend one or other of such schools, whichever shall ue nearest.

4. To pupils attending private primary or secondary schools registered in accordance with section 133 of the Education Act, 1914, but only from stations where there is no private school of the same denomination in the vicinity, and then only to the station in the vicinity of the nearest such school.

5. To holders of free places at technical classes, technical schools, and technichal high schools recognised under the regulations for technical instruction.

6. To pupils on the roll of a public or private primary or secondary school, or of a district hi?h school, travelling to attend classes held at specially equipped manual-training centres and recognised under the regulations for manual instruction.