Fare Fight

The stand being taken by the V.U.C. Stud. Ass. (in association with the Training College Stud Ass.) on the City Council's recent imposition of substantial tramfare increases, is worthy of every student's support.

The chief function of the Stud. Ass. is to protect the interests of students, and the current campaign is a welcome sign that Exec. has not forgotten this fact.

The City Transport Department's ambiguous attitude to concession fares for students, and its short-eighted policy of attempting to make the users pay through the nose for its own inefficiency, have angered all students who use the Department's facilites.

An article in this issue makes it clear that V.U.C. would not have been built where it is had it not been for the extreme shrewdness of one of the cable-car's early promoters. Ever since, V.U.C. (and Training Coll.) have supplied a large proportion of the cable-car's users.

This tentacle of the municipal transport octopus has for many years run at a profit and helped meet tin deficit on the rest.

This situation amounts to positive victimization of students, who as a proverbially impoverished section of the population, should in justice be receiving some sort of concession.

If it can be done in Caledonian Dunedin, why can't it be done in Wellington?

The Stud. Ass. has right and justice, as well as the solid ranks of student opinion, behind it in its stand on this matter.