EXCESS LUGGAGE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 11

EXCESS LUGGAGE

EXCESSIVELY CHARGED FOR

A TRAVELLER'S COMPLAINT

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDN, This Day. A Dunedin citizen who returned a few weeks ago after a European tour says that his most annoying experience was as to his baggage tm arriving at' Auckland. There were three in the partj-, and their baggage weighed DJewt. Ho of course wanted it carried from Auckland to Dunedin, and this was done by the Railway Department, at a charge which works out as equal to £43 16s 5d a ton. On his travelling tickets he was allowed 3cwt, leaving 2;fewt to be paid for as excess baggage. The packages as re-weighed at Dunedin totalled 2ewt 171b excess. The charge on this came to &5 12s Gd, and with the addition of a cheeking charge of 8s he had to pay £.6 0s 6d. With exactly the same baggage, tho party travelled from Liverpool to Quebec and across Canada to Vancouver, right on board tho steamer, without a penny of charge. ; "It seems to me," he added, "that the charge itself is unreasonably high, and that if it wero imposed on a stranger it would give him a feeling that ho was in an unfriendly country. Bight through the Continent people are trying to save visitors trouble and make them welcome, and I felt a littlo humiliated with the thought that tourists whom we are supposed to bo inviting should have such a slap in the faeo at the moment of landing."