SUBURBAN FARES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20465, 9 July 1936, Page 4

SUBURBAN FARES

PROBABLE CONCESSIONS By Telegraph-Pi ess Association AUCKLAND, July 8. The probability of concessions to workers in respect of weekly railway tickets was indicated by the Hon D. G. Sullivan, when replying to-day at Auckland to a suburban deputation, which asked that the time for the operation of such tickets should be extended to 9 o’clock instead of 8. “It is a real problem,” said the Minister. “The position is that workers’ weekly tickets are not really a payable proposition, and if the present privilege is extended to 9 o’clock it will only intensify the economic position.” The Minister admitted that a person who went to work at 9 o’clock was just as much a worker as one who went at 8, and often the wages of such were less. He thought that 9 o’clock workers had a good claim. Whatever solution was .provided would be on a Dominion basis, and must be without loss to the Department. “We have a definite, practical scheme, which we have been examining. If it works out as we hope, our system will give a lead to the world in assisting people with cheap fares. I hope soon to make an announcement.”