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CHEAP FARES TO SPORTS By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, April 30. Acting on an adverse report by its manager, the Transport Board to-day rejected a member’s proposal that a sixpenny sports ticket should be made available between 1 and 7 o’clock on Saturday’s to any sports ground and back to the place of issue. The manager said the fixing of cheap fares was ineffectual in combatting the loss of revenue from the thousands of persons carried free by private motor cars. There were 23,000 cars in the Auckland Province, and they were increasing month by month. It could not be said that the cost of conveyance by car was less than by tram, but in the case of the private car, at a particular time of travel, usually the actual cost was not thought of in any way.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20096, 1 May 1935, Page 5
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