NEW DEPARTURE

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6604, 26 May 1925, Page 1

NEW DEPARTURE

12-TRIP RAILWAY TICKETS ( WELLINGTON-HUTT LINE In connection with the general scheme for popularising train travelling, the Railway Department has Revised a new form of tickets, which will be known as 12-trip bearer tickets. They will be available for use on the Lower Hutt Line. The new tickets will be issued for use between Petone or Lower Hutt and Lambton Station, and between Melling and Lambton, and will have all the conveniences that attach to the concession tickets in use on the city tramways. They are good for 12 single trips in either direction, and are available for use at any time and on any train travelling between the stations named. Furthermore, they are transferable, and the holder is free to have extra clips made, as he chooses, in payment of friends' fares. One or two children between the ages of three and 12 years travelling on the new tickets will count as one adult; three or four children as two adults; and so on, each additional one or two children counting as one adult.

The prices of-the bearer tickets represent a sustantial reduction of the ordinary rates. The tickets available between Petone and Lower Hutt and Wellington will cost 8/6 first class, and 6/- second class; and those on the Melling-Wellington run 9/3 first class and 6/6 second class. They are available, of course, between intermediate stations from Melling to Wellington.