TRAM FARES
EVASION OF PAYMENT WARNING TO OFFENDERS A warning that remonstration would give way to prosecution in cases of evasion of the payment of fares on city trams and buses was given at the meeting of the City Council last night by the chairman of the Transport Committee (Cr J. McCrae). Cr McCrae said that the offence of avoiding the payment of fares was becoming more prevalent. The onus of paying was on the passenger. The Transport Department must lose thousands of pounds each year through this cause. To lose one fare on each section meant a loss to the department of about £14,800 a year.
“ It is just as dishonest,” he said, “ to travel without paying, as it is to go into a shop and leave without paying for goods received. In the past people have been let off with a warning: in the future prosecutions might be more effective.” It was the intention now, Cr McCrae added, to institute a new system of checking that would make easier the detection of those who carried on this dishonest practice.' The committee, in this, was assured of the full co-opera-tion of the Transport Union.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 4
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195TRAM FARES Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 4
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