TRAM MANNERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 6

TRAM MANNERS

Deciding that '"Disgusted" t. Bp earnest, I. as a middle-aged worto® IP woman, wish to add my obserratW «,■ I. too, have noticed, as she ha&nn H keeping their seats (which thw iS fe really entitled to as they havt^ full fare), but have also counMT* fp my fingers the number of Eg who have been grateful enough * II? say "Thank you" for a pnSLT 1| seat from a man who perhaps hai IT heavy standing job, working w fe hours. We women have to KH? cautious in case we let convent*® HI "manners"' hide our own p* How often do we see people «k i " could have done their earlier crowding into worker?®! land expecting a seat, having no». spect for anyone's anatomy with tfry parcels and square baskets,| are great offenders, taking ra fig P room of an extra passenger. pers will always present a proSfe S so long as the Transport BoaidU): to supply workers' cards for Mk times, charging penal fares for iW without them. DOUBLY DISGUSTEa In reply to "DLsgusted's" tetter," I should like to express my % as a working woman. I I object to any man retaining his as: in a tram if he is travelling to er from work. The one thing j object to is housewives and pcopk %■ of leisure crowding into transflE U should be for the workers. If CONSIDERATE |