Set of four documents regarding the issue of a Scholar's Concession Ticket to Barbara Talbot, a student at the Star of the Sea who turned 18 years of age during the currency of the ticket. It was marked not available after that date and had been returned to the Elwood office. The Memo from the "Auditor of Receipts" requested that an additional payment be collected from the student. Mr Gleeson, Tramway Inspected advised that ticket was not used after the lady's birthday and had been returned. See item 7807 for a set of unused tickets.Demonstrates a scholar's concession ticket, the charge made, some confusion over the fare actually collected and the minutia that the VR Ticketing systems monitored.Memorandum - administrative record, typed or handwritten on VR headed paper, card ticket part used and a form completed in ink.tickets, vr, vr trams, victorian railways, accounting, st kilda brighton tramway, schollar concessions, scholar's tickets

Memo dated 6/5/1918 about closing revenue accounts at Elwood depot when the end of the month falls on a Sunday. It would appear that the accounts were being closed off on the following Monday, rather than on Sunday. This has become a long-standing practice. To change this practice would have involved bringing a clerk on duty on a Sunday at an extra cost.Yields information about the VR accounting system and the Elwood depot office.Memorandum - administrative record, typed on VR headed paper.tickets, vr, vr trams, victorian railways, accounting, st kilda brighton tramway

Three memos dated August / September 1909 regarding the tickets for the St Kilda Brighton to cover sections 2 to 6, which was the same fare as 1 to 5 - 4d. Instruction issued that the fare for three or four adjoining sections would be 3d for Adults.Yields information about the VR St Kilda - Brighton fare systems in 1909.Memorandum - administrative record, typed or handwritten on VR headed paper.tickets, vr, vr trams, victorian railways, accounting, st kilda brighton tramway