TO BE PROSECUTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 12

TO BE PROSECUTED.

■ • I men who smoke in buses. 1 1)|-:\"i.xpi.i:t cul'xcii.n ai tih.v. A letter fn.m Mr-. I), [lavii-. min-1 pi iii ll inn; nf men >iiinkiii>r in the l.n--.--i which run between |i. v..n|..irl tiiul Tiika- | Jlllllli; was rcci'ivi'll ;.. I.i-i night's meet- I in-T of the* Devonport Horou-rli ("niiiieil. The writer slaled that .... a ml trip she eniinteil nn less than eleven i men Kinokin-*-. iii.-ludin;.' the driver. She! tlioiijrlit it a dmijieri.iis *.i:i.-t i.-<*. while I il made the journey i iifurtiilile fur women passengers. Tl..' Mayor. Mr. T. l-nmmit. said tlmt lie understood that the driver was ii | lion-smoker, bill v eotineillor replied tlinl ' he had seen tho man ill eliurjre ..I till' [ l.ns smoking. The May...- explained Hint the f'oilllcil bad no" jurisdiction onec the bus ua...iisi.le th" Devonport boundary. The trouble wns thai passengers knew this and "lit up lifter Illl! liiilindlll'V WIH passed. Several oilier eouiirillors thouj-lit that passengers sln.uld refrain from sinnkine; while '.hey were in ihe bin. It was only a small sacrifice. After further di.-eils.-ion il was decided to prov-ceutc those passengers who smoked in buses, and to a-k the Takapuna 'Si.n.uj.'!. Couiicil lo eiil'i.ive the by-law