TRAVELLING BY RAIL

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3392, 24 December 1931, Page 5

TRAVELLING BY RAIL

.v. .'....♦ -..:"■. 'sSs-.Mit- '' : v'-.i.5i& CHEAP TRAVEL PROVIDED F6R V ? fi i>'&&- " ''FAMILIES. -•..:.; : -'.-.: : : : : -•'...;■;=.•■;.'...:....'*- ;■/•':•;■ .- - --.',"■ \: It is by now fairly well known..that J the new second class return train cost on an "average slightly Sess than a penny for each mile of travel, m But,|jb 4s not so generally recognised •£&, that even these low fares beconffi*Y^. very much lower when a large fami!» v :;setsi;|put for a holiday to a place 2g more away by rail. . '•& reduction commences if b«h parents and 'three children undeijglS, : years of age travel together. InMbat : jease,,,one of the children is cJpried free.:-. The arrangement, of "«jrse,r j\'. * applies only to second class Jp-aveT,' arid 1 /provides for the purchdK of a ticket for the family for aial cost equal to three times the sejro'd class excursion return .■'■•fare. iorWthe dis- : tance to be travelled, and JTleast one ;.'." of the parents is rcquirJß to travel -' with 'the children. SuppAig a father and mother r.nd their sifchildren un-> der 16 years of age ndrlk a trip un- , ; ' der, these conditiony-. mF would cosf'-ggfj them only, the yr'icejmf. -three second' •;.. . class excursion 68 ' other words, four M\\dren. would. I carried free. "It jpfchis which justifies thjKrailway "The larger theJ|ami!y the greater'^lß These concesjbns.: are now in con- jfl i siderable deniJW, for: there are ten. ;. thousand''chilifferi 'in , New, Zealand. 1 ' belonging. toMimlies with from eight.:. .: to fourteen«iildren under: sixteen fI years of a*; while there are ;: : o?er ; '., 1100,000 fbjlfren: belonging to families %i | havirig;iQa|^'^)i^