MISSED TRAM FARES
TWOPENCE EACH DAY MEANS
£1039 A YEAR
CONDUCTOR’S DISMISSAL APPEAL PROVES USELESS
(Press Association 1
AUCKLAND, Oct. 1. If each of our 340 conductors missed a 2d fare a day for each day iu the year the revenue lost to the transport board would amount to C 1039 a year, said Mr Ford, manager of the board, when giving evidence before the Appeal Board.
The board was considering an appeal of a conductor against his dismissal for allegedly issuing a used ticket to a woman passenger. Mr Ford said travellers oil trams usually preferred to mind their own business and not give evidence in cases against employees. Sometimes they assisted conductors to do wrong. Some conductors lost ns many as 10 to 12 fares daily. Many tram services'looked on an open inspection as so inefficient that they resorted to plain clothes inspectors. This was espionage, and did not exist in Auckland. The board dismissed the _ appeal, the employees’ representative dissenting on tho ground that _ there was only one witness and that it was a case of one person’s word against another’s.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 6
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184MISSED TRAM FARES Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 6
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