STATION CHARGES

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 6

STATION CHARGES

To the Editor of the "Timaru Herald." Sir,—Kindly give mo space in. vonr cr.limms to bring before the public' the injustice thai is daily being earned c,n in our ' Advance South Canterbury'', cr.pitaJ—Timaru. Scone: Tmaru. railway cC'tion the departure -to camp ct our married men ; husbands leaving for the hist times . their" their vires and-children, all that is dear to them, and to. see; the last of cur loved

ones v.c tre politt-ly but emphatically told that the admission tp the Tii'iaru r.-iihv.:- station is threepence. no concession to soldiers' wives. Yet our husband'- are supposed to be .able to" 'er.ve their - wives ' with all homo comfort?. ■Hardly had this instance occurred than p.liQiher soldier's wife arrives at the station -to post a letter to,her husband in crimp—2\d for posting letter, and 3d adnsisTiou to tlic station to post the letter. The amount of admission is not- the whole matter to 'oo diseased; it is the attitude meted out- 10 tbo soldier's wife. Surely our_ member of rV'i could spend a- little time m studying our feelings, or if not he, perhaps tho Chamber of Commerce or onr ..-ily fathers could sea iliac regulation conies in force to bntiisli. tire iini-os'l.Vin eF "the railway • authorities in making this .unjust charge r-« 1 believe ; t is the only station." in New ■Zealand where admission is charged. Trusting that the public of Timaru will arise, aj-ainst this imposition as n body, if they cannot {jet the heads to assist :be-in, so that- another woman. will lint- have to suffer as I have had toduv.—i ami etc.. A SOLDIER'a VVII'E.