SMOKING ON FERRY BOATS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 189, 11 August 1928, Page 8

SMOKING ON FERRY BOATS.

Why should smokers receive so much consideration on the ferry steamers? Three of the four cabins have been set aside for emo J«s e - Both the cabins on deck are so marked, and the consequence is that women who object to smoking have to go below. It seems to me to be a one-sided arrangement. MILFORD[Mr. A. E. Alison states that the conversion or the second deck cabin into a smoking cabin 8 -bf 7 recentl y n»de, after repeated requests from a large number of regular travel™~»formerly, the smoking cabin was alway* TZ^*Z° m * n and non-emokere composing •bout fifty per cent of the occupants, %43e XEmiJ**" , obTioue ly unfair that smokers SSf J* foretd to Btand out <"» a»e open deek nZt*sl? rf empty ***** where **y wtn SmJ^ST - to , Sit - 34or*orer. in thi deek * / moke k not nnple»«Mt, as they SLSf J" at ° ne e °d- The largest and beetC * bm On each is «iB reserved for non-smokers, bat it has few 9^" en when the oth «- three cabins "JJnUL On an average trip there are rarely ■ere than two or three in it.—Ed.]