WEEK-END TICKETS.
NO CONCESSIONS GRANTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
* Wellington, Wednesday. The Minister for Railways has replied to the resolution by the recent Chambers of Commerce Conference, with reference to the issue of week-end tickets on the New Zealand railways. The reply says that experiments made by the Department in various parts of the Dominion in issuing cheap tickets in connection with the half-holiday movement from the large centres to places of interest within a reasonable distance, at low rates, did not turn out a financial success. The ordinary rates for travel in this country were so low that they form no bar whatever to those people who have time or leisure to journey by rail. The Department also issues at frequent intervals holiday excursion and day excursion tickets at rates much below the ordinary tariff. The people of the Dominion enjoy great facilities in railway travel, and have no cause for complaint in regard to the rates they pay. In these circumstances, he cannot see his way to comply with the conference's request.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14143, 19 August 1909, Page 6
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