ONEHUNGA’S ALARM
CHANGE FEARED IN TRAM RATES INTERFERENCE DENIED “I have noted with considerable surprise that the Onehunga Borough Council has carried a resolution strongly protesting against the reduction in the discount rate on concession cards,” said Mr. J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the Transport Board, this morning. “The cash fares and the concession fares to and from Onehunga have d&t been altered and neither has the workers’ concession ticket been in any way interfered with. “The local traffic in Onehunga is practically confined to one section, i.e., from the Royal Oak to the terminus, a distance of 147 chains or nearly 2 miles and the longest section in the whole service. “In other words, those residents of Onehunga who use concession cards will pay 4d per ride extra.” It was right, Mr. Allum said, that the public should know that Onehunga enjoyed special advantages due to the provisions of the Auckland Suburban Electric Tramways Order dated April 27, 1901, and the board did not propose to interfere with those conditions.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 14
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