OVERCROWDING OF TRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 5

OVERCROWDING OF TRAMS.

EMPLOYEES PROSECUTED. [BY TELEGRAm. — P11E33 ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 19th July. The present unsatisfactory position of affairs from the point of view of the man who is left standing in the street while a tram dashes past received a little further explaining before' *Mr. Dyer, S.M., in the Police Couit this morning. Phillip John Whitohoase, motorman, and James M'Donald, conductor, were proceeded against by John Turner, Auckland- city traffic inspector, for infringing one, of the by-law 3by proceeding past a fit'opping-place where a number of prospective passenger,? weis waiting, without bringing the car to a standstill, tho car being at the time not occupied by the lull number of pisseugers for which it was licensed. < Mr. Mays, who defended, admittcl that the car parsed a> was alleged. The defence would be bused on the merits of the cace. John Turner stated that on 10th July, at 4.25 p.m., car 64, bound for Ponaonby, passed tho stopping place at Victoria Arcade without pulling up, in 3pite of the fact that a number of would-be passenger^ were waiting there, and that the car was not nearly full. , Mr. ilays: You know that the stop-ping-places have recently been altered? — Yes. And that intending pasrengers are requested to notify the motorman by holdinp; up their hnn'd or walking-stick: liie Af-igistrstc her© intciposed with ths opinion that it was not tho custom to mal'-c such a signal. With permission of the MngUtrato, tho charge against tho conductor vras withdrawn. "The necessity of "cignallinc; to tho motorman \vhcn"desiroii3 that he should fitop," remarked Mr. Dyer, "is certainly something we should be acquainted with, r.s I dm sure very few arc aware of it, bnt in any case with Tcgaul to the motormun I cannot understand how ho can argue that he did not know those people were standing there for the car. I will go thoroughly into the by-laws, and will give my decision r.oxt Friday. 1 ' An cxtanded night in connection with ths Empiro AthlctLic Club' Quadrille Assembly will bo hold on Thursday evening. Mr. W. .Tones, a candidate for tho vace:.t soat on tho Hutt Borough Council, through our advertising columns reminds the electors Ihnt ha only misled a seat at tho 19'J5 oNet'on by cijjltt votei. He inlcivU to jil ico liia view* before tho electors at an early tlalo.