TRAMWAY MANNERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 181, 2 August 1929, Page 6

TRAMWAY MANNERS.

AN EX-PUPIL'S VIEW. (To the Editor.) I would like to point out +n «» whose letter appeared in this column day last, that, had his daughter secondary school here in Auckland as 1 just a few years ago, she would have w' obliged to pay full fare on the t™l! 1 would still have been required to givJTn seat to adults. In those days crarbL T ciders, especially with regard to seats? S was strictly enforced by the schools 2ft appears to me that it is only because ! and parents have failed in their duties f8 it has been made necessary for the Trnna J Board to make its recent Tlio privately-owned buses in this citv it a general rule that children travelling t concessions must stand if necessary X? after all, apart from good manners h S just. _ On one well-known line of buses tM rule is still enforced without opposition f! the parents of the district, or undue hard? to the children Children are nTtoZ teous and good-mannered, but should acquire this polish with their education, for of wW use is an accumulation of knowledge without the outward signs of refinement and res P 2 which learning should bring? P OLD GRAMMAR GIRL,