COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ TICKETS.

Evening Star, Issue 12603, 7 September 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ TICKETS.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —In your issue of to-day’s date C notice that a deputation of commercial travellers from the Wellington Association waited upon Sir Joseph Ward, urging him to issue sectional annual tickets for travellers. Now, Sir Joseph, in his goodness of heart, proposed to give this request his early attention; but, s: Sir Joseph will be giving a concession that is not fair and not required. So far as the holders of t) eae sectional tickets in the South are concerned, it is a well-known fact that the travellers who use them ready occupy the railway carriages • more titan a man with a ticket for the whole colony; that is to sav, they are travelling continually the whole year round, and doable back on their journey again and again, week after week, hardly stopping any length of time in one township, wh3e the hole lor of the whole-colony ticket does much less travelling, and frequently remains a considerable time in (me town, thus using the railways much less, and paying much more than the "sectional” man, who is for ever on the train. Anyone who knows anything about travelling will bear out this statement. I think that if Sir Joseph grants this ho will simply be lessening the railway'' returns without adequate reason. It is quite impossible lor either the long-distance tor

Teller or the sectional traveller to travel more gn one day at a time. The' question of paying on excess luggage only one way is worthy of concession, as the present double excess rates are too high.—l am, etc., Tsavkllkb. September 5.