“HONESTY” BOXES
ALL AUCKLAND TRAMS POTENTIAL SOURCE OF REVENUE P.A/ AUCKLAND, Aug. 16. “ Honesty ” boxes to enable passengers to pay fares not collected by the conductors are to be placed on all Auckland trams. This was decided at a meeting of the Auckland Transport Board, when the manager. Mr C. R. Gribble, reported on tests from which it was estimated that the boxes would provide a net annual revenue of £690. The average daily revenue of trial boxes on straight shift cars was 3d and on broken shift cars 2d, said Mr Gribble. These amounts appeared very low, but they represented a potential annual gross revenue of about £I4OO if all the trams were fitted with boxes. From (his should be deducted the cost of collection, say, £416 a year, and £294 as a proportion of the cost of the boxes, leaving a net revenue of £690. As this was revenue, the board could not otherwise expect to obtain, he recommended that boxes be fitted to all trams.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26852, 17 August 1948, Page 4
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