Wars Lighter Side.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 6

Wars Lighter Side.

Old Lady: flo you're a minesweeper, (ire you* And irhcrc do you sirecn the minceT Cautious Sailor: Oh. just round the top of them, lady; where the dust Mettles.

ACTION BY BOARD. MINIMISING OF LITTER. DUST PANS AND WHISKS. Measures to minimise the litter caused by the dropping of tickets in tram*? and streets were adopted by the Auckland Trans-port Board to-day, and the manager, Mr. A. E. Ford, was instructed to give further consideration to the practicability and cost of installing in the cars " containers for the depositing of litter. Dealing with a request by the City Council that receptacles be placed at each end of tramcar<> in order to prevent tv some extent the de.i«>siting of ticket* on the street*. Mr. Ford reported that containers had been tried ineffectively in other centres. While a number of paasenfrers -would appreciate the availability of containers, experience had shown that the majority followed the line of lea?t resistances and *»imp!y dropped discarded tickets, cigarette ends and packets to the floor of the trains. To provide containers opposite each seat would be out of the question, and it was also most difficult to find a suitable situation for them near the exit door*. Recently. added Mr. Ford, lie had had constructed duet pans to be placed on all straight shift cars, together with short-handled whisks, and five dust containers for placing on safety zones adjacent to the Queen* and Custom Streets junction. In an endeavour to keep the care clean. Uie Tramway Employees' Union had been requested to co-operate -.villi the. board in the matter of occasionally brushing up the ticket* and other debris during slack trip*. The bodrd confirmed Mr. Ford's action, but Mr. J. A. C. Allum urged that hft should further report on the question as the City Council was concerned about the tickets left on the streets.

In tlie discussion which endued moml>ers MijiL'Cpted that stejw should he. taken to clean out the trains at the end of eaoh trip, and that vacuum cleaner* might be used for this purpose.