PRAMS ON TRAMS
ra rxt mitoi or rax rxxss. Sir, —What a funny old world it is! “We want more babies,” say politicians and preachers all over the country. “All very well, but we can’t carry their prams,” says the Tramway Board. Of course, mothers of babies should always stay home. We have men making everything necessary and unnecessary, men paid to do nothing, because there is no work fof them, but there are not enough men to look after baby’s pram on a tram. And there are women to make sweets and cakes and give “perms,” but there are not enough women to look after home and the other children while the mother is away at a nursing home. This is civilisation!— Yours, etc., . MOTHER.
March 28, 1939. [Mr H. E. Jarman, general manager of the Christchurch Tramways, said that the board was in sympathy with “Mother” but there was a limit to the number of prams that could be carried on a one-man tram. “The modern pram is heavy and difficult to store,” he said, “and mothers object to having them stacked. Besides, they can be a danger to persons boarding or leaving the car.”]
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22678, 5 April 1939, Page 9
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197PRAMS ON TRAMS Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22678, 5 April 1939, Page 9
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