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N.S.W. RAILWAY LOSSES ’ 1 • ' ‘i £ , WARNING TO THE PUBLIC (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assu.) (Received Nov. 25, noon.) SYDNEY, Nov. 25. The Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. Cleary, stated that for the last five months of. this year the railway losses each week were £70,000, hut in the Inst few weeks the losses jumped to nearly £IOO,OOO. He warned city folks thut unless they backed the services a had day of reckoning would come. 1 The Transport Trust expressed satisfaction at the effect of the recent introduction of concession fares on tramways. A large number of additional passengers were Carried. The chairman of the trust said they did not favor Id fares. The Auckland City Council gave this system a trial, but abandoned it gif ter six weeks.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17425, 25 November 1930, Page 7
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