EXTENSION TO ROADS
RAIL PASSES FOR DISABLED ‘ SERVICEMEN
P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, May 19. The extension of free rail passes for disabled servicemen to enable them to travel on specified road transport routes was announced by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, in a telegram received by the annual conference of the New Zealand War Amputees today. Authority to extend the passes, the Minister said, was at the discretion of the secretary of war pensions, and applied to New Zealand Railways bus routes which served areas not covered by rail services. The concession would not be general. The secretary would consider applications from holders of passes, arid would have regard to existing rail services available to the holders.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26776, 20 May 1948, Page 8
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