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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 8 (January 15, 1927)

What Carbine Missed!

What Carbine Missed!

The following interesting piece of correspondence is recorded to show how time may be wasted by failure to apply the principles of common-sense to a simple query.

The white copy of a Guard's P.—9 ticket showed no amount paid, whereas the yellow original indicated 7d. in the paid column. When the Stationmaster referred the matter to the Guard concerned asking for an explanation of the difference, the reply sent was, “The difference between Guard's and passenger's copies is this: The Guard's copie is a yellow ticket with Guard's ticket written across it, and the passenger's ticket is a plain white one.’ On being pressed further the following reply was extracted: — “The carbine must of been folded therefor causing it to miss.”

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