DEPARTMENTAL STATEMENT
On enquiry at the , Railway Department, a Post reporter was informed that the ticket referred to is a twelve-trip worker's ticket, originally intended for daily uso by workmen, and available for six days a week. The period of availability was subsequently extended to fourteen days. Recently, several alterations, necessitated by existing conditions, have been made in .regard to passenger tickets, with a view to simplifying the checking system, and to enable the Department to release men for active service. On the particular section referred to the cost of the ticket is 4s a week, for twelve trips, and the distance travelled daily is fourteen miles. As the coalminers were on strike for t^vo days of this week, a weekly ticket which would expire on Saturday had four days' availability. Even on that basis the charge for a daily journey of fourteen miles would only be Is a day. It maybe added that the regulation governing the issue of these tickets (making them weekly instead of fortnightly) was only gazetted on the 23rd instant, and therefore can have had nothing to do with the differences between the miners and the Government.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 8
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192DEPARTMENTAL STATEMENT Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1917, Page 8
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