TRANSPORT OF CARS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 6

TRANSPORT OF CARS

RAILWAY CONCESSION FREE RETURN TRIP (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. The Minister of Railways, Mr R. Semple, announced to-day that as a measure to compensate motorists, in some degree for the present-day limitations on car travel it has been decided, subject to certain lenient conditions, to grant free return transport of motor cars 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 the equivalent in passenger fares, to hold rail tickets -for the same journeys as are made by the car. The period 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 gre"at 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 from which to the starting point exceeds that of the outward journey, an appropriate charge for the extra mileage will be made. , • The formalities had been reduced to a minimum, Mr Semple said. A 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. '