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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 14, 11 October 1927, Page 9

A Buffuestion of a practical nature was made by an Invercargill business man in regard to the cleaning- of railway carriages on the Invercargill-Christ-church express (says the Southland "Timos’"). He prefaced his remarks by stating that the carriages were in a very dirty condition by the time the journey was only half completed. From his experience of travelling abroad he had seen that in America there was a porter in charge of each carriage, and it was his duty to see that it was kept clean, and that the requirements of the passengers wore attended to. This was not the practice in New Zealand, and even if the scheme were initiated it could not be worked on such a lavish scale. He suggested that a reasonable staff of, Bay. two or three porters should travel with the through express. The present method was for a porter to board the tram, at Dunedin and endeavour in the very limited time nt his disposal to clean up, usually with vary poor results.