INCIVILITY ON TRAM CARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 8

INCIVILITY ON TRAM CARS.

(To tile Editor.) Sir, —You must be tired of receiving letters about the inadequate car service, and no donbt those responsible are doing what they can to ease the inconveniences under which residents in this plaasant locality arc groaning. But notwithstanding frequent complaints, few apparently have cared, or even perhaps dared to complain of the autocrats of tin , tram car. I can only designate the conductors as such. There seenM to be a. greater want of courtesy amongst them, than was the case when they served a private company—when, in fact, they had '"bosses." It is not too much to ask that, even if "a good soldier never looks behind," they should set aside that rule in favour of the public. It is most annoying to be within an ace of catching a car, and "to miss it because the eyes of the con-'u-'trn-are fixed only upon the inside. A recent case where a wretched mortal was running with, some heavy parcels, and was only grinned at by the conductor as he pulled the starting signal, while the would-be passenger was, like Lord Ullin's daughter, "left lamenting 7' half a d > rcn yards away, is, let us hope, quite tho exception. I am sure that if public i attention be called to acts of discourtesy, | which, I am bound to say, are the exception rather than the rule, they will quickly become non-existent. Civility, after all, costs very little, if anything.— I an*, etc., J. MARJORIBANKS STEELE.