WEEK-END EXCURSIONS
NEW POLICY INAUGURATED.
TICKETS AVAILABLE THREE DAYS.
A new policy of issuing tickets at holiday excursion rates for week-end journeys was recently announced by the Department of ■Railways. It will be brought into operation to-day.
Tickets will be issued every Saturday and Sunday from any station to any station, with certain conditions. Th© minimum distance to which the excursion rates will apply is 29 miles, and, as in the past, the mileage will be counted one way only. Every ticket, whether issued on Saturday or Sunday, will expire at midnight on Monday, so that the. maximum journey is definitely determined by the train services. Some confusion regarding the new scale of excursion fares has been created by the notices in the last issue of the Gazette. A schedule is given showing the fares for all distances, and these rates will remain in operation permanently. A second notice explains the imposition of the special war charge of Id for every shilling or fraction of one shilling, and this addition must be *riade to the rates shown in the schedule. The minimum fares at excursion rates will, therefore, be 5s 5d for first-class and 3s 9d for second-class.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16032, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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