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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 29, 3 August 1921, Page 6

Intoxicated persons are to be more strictly excluded from Christchurch trams in future. The Tramway Board was faced on Monday with the old problem "what constitutes a drnnken man?" The contribution by the chairman (Mr. S. A. Staples) to the controversy was: "If they can't stand they are intoxicatr cd." "If a man can't get on a car without assistance he is intoxicated" was another definition. It was argued that a drunken man on a tram was a danger ,to himself and to the public. The Works and Traffic Committee reported as follows :—"Tho problem of deciding when a man is too much, under the influence of liquor to be allowed on a- tram car is not always an easy one for inspectors or conductors, but cases have come under notice where undue laxity r has been shown. The comfort of other passengers, as well as the possibility of accident to the offending passenger himself, makes it necessary to tighten up the board's regulations in this respect."

Mr. John 0. Lathrop, 0.5.8., of Brooklino. Mass., U.S.A.,' will deliver a free public lecture on Christian science on Thursday evening in the Concert Chamber, Town H*lL