WORK ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — In Saturday's issue some unfeeling 1 being signing himself as "Ratepayer" writes to your paper stating that he would like to see the trams run for a few hours on Christmas morning to connect with the north-bound expresses. Now, being a railway man, I know what it is to work on Christmas Day, and have a little feeling for others. It's men like "Ratepayer" that make his fellow-men work on Christmas Day, and I think it would look something like if "Ratepayer" stopped home or walked where he wanted to for one day in the year. It would not do him any harm, but would give him an appetite for his dinner; or, if he wanted to be with his relatives in the country, let him go the day before. The tramway and railway men have a bad enough time for holidays as it is, and I don't see why the general public don't study their interest for ouo day in tho year, and have both the trams and trains stopped. What is Christmas Day to a man with a family if he can't be home? It passes like an ordinary week day when you are working. The distance from Newtown to the Government station is only a_ fraction over three mile«, and I don't think it would do any one any harm to walk it. "Ratepayer" says that it would not entail any hardship on a few men if the trams were run for a few hours only. Well, we take, for instance, that three or four men live at Thorndon. They would have to walk to Nowtowni run a car to Government station anil back, and then walk home again, and then perhaps have to turn out again for the eveninp. Then, again, look at the expense it will run the council into. To run two or three cars in the morning steam will have to be kept going over night and j also all day to run again at night ; that moans more men in the power-house, besides the traffic men, that will have to get double pay, and the consequence will bo that expenses will exceed the returns. I only hope the council will keep to their | former vipws, and not mn the trams at all on Christmas T)s»y, — I am. etc.. ! ONE OF THE UNFORTUNATE ' Wellington, 13th December, 1908.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1908, Page 4
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