FREE TRAM RIDES.
SOCIAL WORKERS' PASSES. [bt telegram.—own correspondent.! WELLINGTON. Tuesday. Mr. C. H. Chapman, a member of the City Council, baa given formal notice to move that a resolution by which the councD decided to discontinue the issue of tramway passes to approved persona find societies should be recinded. The question has been several times before the council, the position being that while councillors are anxious Co give assistance to societies or persons who do valuable voluntary social work the Audi-tor-General has stated that the issue ofi these passes is outside the council's jurisdiction and that accordingly the Mayor and councillors are liable to be surcharged. When the master was last considered the Mayor, Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., suggested that the difficulty could be simplv overcome if councillors liked to take the risk. A deputation representing the teveral societies affected will wait rpon the tramwajfa committee at its next igjectipfr '„
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18556, 14 November 1923, Page 11
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