TRAM PASSES FOR SOLDIERS.
CITY COUNCIL'S DECISION. An explanation of the stand recently taken by the City Council with regard to requests for free passes on trams for disabled soldiers and others, was given by Miss E. Melville in the course of her address on Tuesday evening. A question was handed up criticising the action of tho' candidate in having voted against the proposal to allow free passes to the disabled men. As a matter of fact, said Miss Mel-' ' ville, six of the councillors had voted for ' I free passes, and thirteen against, and it J would be nonsense to say the thirteen I were not just as deeply interested in the ; welfare of the soldiers as the other six. Th e council had decided, however, that until the first half-yearly balance-sheet was available, no alterations would be . made in the present system. "It is easy to be generous with other people's ■ money," continued the speaker, " but, • having a great sense of responsibility as [ to what we councillors are able to do with i your money, w e have made that rule, and | we are going to stick to it!" (Loud ap-1 plause.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17328, 27 November 1919, Page 8
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