TRAMWAY PASSES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 15

TRAMWAY PASSES

ABUSE OF SYSTEM

POSITION IN CHRISTCHURCH

(By Telegraph—Press- 'Association.) CHBISTCHURCH, February 26. Serious abuses of the system of weekly passes recently instituted on the Christchurch tramways system were described by the chairman of the board, tho Rev. J. Iv Archer, today. He stated that passes were being lent indiscriminately, and wero even being purchased by firms for the use of their" staffs. . v

"Wo have no objection to tho purchaser of a paSs 'Using it to an un limited extent himself," said Mr Aicher, "noi are we particulai about his lotting his wife or son or daughtei take occasional ndcs with it How ever, passes in man) cases, aio being lent to people who have no real claim to their use, and who would othciwisc paj tor their own ndcs For ex imple, members ot clubs, churches, and otljei oigamsations who do not requite then passes, sa\, oh the last day ot the week for winch tho/v weie issued, aie simply distributing them, at random nmong tjieir acquaintances In' some cases passes aio actually being posted fiom one tiamway aicA to anothei Fui thoi than that, we have leceued eyi deuce that at lopst one business film bins two' passes > ea\ch week and uses them at "diffident times to enable diffeient monibeis of the staff to go to and fiom their homes or <to dchvei messages, bills, ,and circulars all over the citj It has been estimated by i imn in-a^-p^ltion—tcr-know the facts thesg pasSqs this fiim ■£! t a ,w;eek each in tram fares and postage "Whilo^theie^aio1 no conditions at tached <to tha issue pf t week;ly passes, it is clear., 'that t;hia* latitude is being abused to quite an urtiustifiablc ex tent," said t Mr. Archer. "The board'is seriously considering a Remedy for the statp of affans which exists,1 and has icceivod ■'numerous suggestions fiom various citizens. One is that each pass .ghould cai.iv the t n imc of tho pui chasei, as> "dcTiailwav passes, another is th it passes should be punched -at each ride, aiid ( only a, certain numbci of udes allow2d> 'What will bo done ovelitualh his not been decided, so that it is useless to speculate at this stage, but undoubted); somcthjng will be doric v. cry soon '' '