OVERCROWDED LIFTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 211, 5 September 1924, Page 9

OVERCROWDED LIFTS.

(Tte.the Editor.)' Sir,— May I, through your columns, draw the attention of.those responsible to the overotowding of passenger lift* in our large stores,' more particularly those catering principally for women. To-day I entered one of these lifts which left the ground floor with 20 adults, 2 children in arms, and one (if not two) toddlers. We were literally "packed like sardines," breathing one another's breath, forced into close personal contact with whoever -Happened to be by vs —the -woman next to mo wore a veil, and being so close, I observed that she had some sort of skin eruption all over the lower portion or her face—hence my raising this objection. I take it for granted that the lifts are of the best and provided with every possible safeguard, but imagine being held prisoner temporarily for even a short period under such circumstances—for however great the precautions, accidents do happen. Sir, I submit that such overcrowding is neither safe, sanitary, nor decent, and if there is no authority with power to regulate > the use of lifts in the direction indi- | cated, it is high time there should be.— . I am, etc., WELFARE.