RAILWAY CONCESSIONS
CASE OF COMPANIES. A protest was maao in tho House yesterday by Air E. P. Lee, member for Oamaru, against the refusal of the Alinister for Railways to abolish the concessions given on the railways to the theatrical and circus artists. The working man was denied concessions on the railways at the present time, while theatrical people who took money out of the country were given big concessions.
In his reply to Air Lee the Alinister said: The practice oi granting, at the convenience “of the Railway Department, first-class accommodation on payment, of the full second-class ordinary fare to theatrical, concert, and circus companies has obtained on the New Zealand railways from the earliest days. So far as tho New Zealand railways are concerned, it represents the application of what is a world-wide railway practice, being a concession in accommodation and not on the ordinary rates, and as it mainly referred to people who were travelling for a livelihood it was considered undesirable to suspend the regulation in the first case, but the question of withdrawing the concession is now under consideration.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9716, 19 July 1917, Page 3
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