TRAMWAY BY-LAWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 239, 2 July 1908, Page 8

TRAMWAY BY-LAWS.

A PASSENGER -FIXED. (FROM OCR SrECIAL CORRKSPONDENr ), V . Auckland July 1. A tramear passenger was prosecuted for boarding a tramear which already' had its full complement, and refusing to leave. In the course of the case Mr. Kittle, S.M. exPressed tho opinion-that it was the duty of t'J ram,Vays c c om P a ny to see that the by-laus . were enforced. He considered it hnnr s I,a «lship for the conductors to bear tho onus and costs of instituting prothn Trnffl a f mst , Pagers. Wherl las the Traffic Inspector ? It seemed to him that the Sice!' VOT h3d bC6n , taken t0 st °P " That may be," said Mr. Hackett; the to the"!-' C fif ' fl ? s d . a f ided ' iH refGrellCo nnnn ti, mfllcted by tl,e Magistrate p " f excess passenger in question, "but I hn\c- no doubt this decision will be contested I don t think the public will for a moment be satisfied to bo at the mercy and caprice: of conductors when boarding a that may or may not be quito full." Kettle" 7 "If ;,P? ckett '" returned Mr. Kettle, if you think of appealing I will state you a case." The Magistrate added that 111 his opinion prosecutions of this kind would do moro to prevent.tho overcrowding kLwXfif fl" anyt + hil,S , e,SO - If P erso »» kn&\\ that if th©y entered tramcars which were already full, and refused to quit, thov would be liable to a heavy penalty it would he thought, put an end to overcrowding. It hnri> a^ p:1 1? ? ramwi y s Union should have been compelled to talco the present proceedings, but they were obliged to do WnrJ I ? ro P er authority, the City Traffic Inspector, had not seen his way to do it, although it must havo been known to him and bis assistants that overcrowding had been going on ever since the tramway system was installed m Auckland.