WOMEN BUS CONDUCTORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 172, 22 July 1924, Page 12

WOMEN BUS CONDUCTORS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, — Evidently your correspondent. -T. Liddell Kelly, lias been to Melbourne and obtained some information in support of women as bus conductors. If what lie writes is true, then I say it is not right for those women to receive £3 1">/ to £5 per week when there are so many men, especially married ones, who would lie thankful for this wage. Hen that were honest arc now becoming criminals because the world has changed so since the war, and at times I say to myself ' "shall I go out to-night and see what I can steal."' However, I have not started lon this course yet, but if the women are requiring all the jobs, then I shall haveto start. Many a married man in this country is earning less than that paid these young women, and 1 am one of them.—l am, etc,. MAORILAXDEIt. (To the Kdltor.) .Sir,— J. Liddle Kelly suggests that lour councillors are a lot of '"duffers," or ' something to that effect, merely because ; they do not do the same as they do in Melbourne and some of the other cities. Fortunately, our councillors have minds of their own and look into the pros and eons of things before acting. Can our friend deny the fact that the policy of granting licenses to lady bus conductors I country (and probably Australia V is concerned. It is evident from his letter that the Melbourne lady conductors have few, if any, dependent on them. However, let us assume that 25 per cent of them have say, an aged mother or invalid brother to keep, then the total number of souls getting a living out of the particular work is 25. If the Melbourne councillors were to adopt the same attitude as ours have, there would undoubted ly be nearer 45 souls getting a living out of it. —I am, etc., OXE WHO HAS TRAVELLED.