ON A TRAM CAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 310, 30 December 1915, Page 7

ON A TRAM CAR.

AX EXPLANATION OF THE OCCURRENCE. With reference to the incident on a tramcar, reported in our Tuesday's issue, iv which two wounded soldiers complain about the refusal of a ludy to allow a seat to be reserved for a soldier who was wounded in the feet, the lady in question states that the account published entirely misrepresents the facts as far as she is concerned. She says the car was crowded with men going to the racecourse, some of whom were very noisy. That when she got on the car with her husband, the only seat vacant was one at the end of which a man in khaki was sitting, and her husband requested him to move up in order that his wife might sit down with a child who accompanied her. She did not then know that the occupant of the seat had been wounded, or that any other wounded man was on the car, nor did she, during the whole of the journey, see a lame soldier. She says that she has frequently given 'ip her seat to old men and to women with children, and no one would more readily have made a place for a wounded soldier than she. if she had been informed that a eeat was required for anyone in that position. As to what took place behind when she sat down, the crowded state of the car and the noise made by some of the passengers bound for the racecourse prevented her from seeing.