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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 214, 3 June 1908, Page 8

' ;Seyeral instances of ; man's .inhumanity, to •"man •••were duoted by, conductors at'tho meeting of ' • ChristchurCh tramway employees. One stated , that; "a; gentleman, once tendered .him a pound-riote in payment for threo twopbnny'Hickete. ,/ : The conductor, had not : 'sufIficient 'change,' and the gentleman promised 'to pay the Tiarmloss and necessary sixp'enco 'at< tho' Cathedral, Square: office. . ,"Ho must :have forgottehthe'address;" the'narrator remarked sadly,, "because ho has never been there to pay, and! the sixpence camo out of my pocket." Another conductor had a similar experience, with a well-known business man. ; The; cost of a five-ponny ticket was involved in this case; and although frequently ' reminded' of' the transaction, for the principlo of ;the thing,- he had not yet discharged his obligation to the conductor'. The attention of investors is directed" to asale announcement, in this issue, by Mr. W. P. Garner,.of Ohutu, Utiku.