MOTOR-CARS BY RAIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24131, 25 November 1941, Page 6

MOTOR-CARS BY RAIL

CONCESSION ANNOUNCED FREE RETURN TRANSPORT - [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON, Monday The Minister of Railways, the Hon. R. Semple, announced to-day that as a measure to compensate motorists in some degree for present-day limitations on car travel, it has been decided, subject to certain lenient conditions, to grant free return transport of motorcars which are conveyed by rail at ordinary freight rates on the outward journey. The new regulation will operate from Monday, December 1. To obtain the concession it will be necessary for two adults or tbo equivalent in passenger fares to, hold rail tickets for the same journeys as made by the car. The perio'd" within which the concession applies has been fixed at three months from the commencement of the outward journey. This will amply cover the required travelling time of the, great majority of motorists. It will not be obligatory to return a car from the identical station to which it was originally railed, but where re-railing takes place at another station " the distance of which to the' starting point exceeds that of the outward journey an appropriate charge for the extra mileage will be made.

Formalities had been reduced to a minimum, said Mr, ''Semple. Written application for the concession would need to be made beforehand at the station from which the car was to be forwarded and the completion of a brief certificate embodying details of the car would be required.