OBLIGING TRAM CONDUCTORS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 9

OBLIGING TRAM CONDUCTORS

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHURCH. 25th August.

Christchurch tramway conductors o.bject to tho statement reported to have been made that tho opposition in the. form of buses has made them more obliging. They contend that courtesy and duty to tho travelling public have been their first consideration, oven before opposition buses came into being. At thol general meeting of the Tramway Union yesterday, the secretary (Mr. Snow) reported that he had forwarded a letter to Mr. E. P. Leo, Chairman, of the Select Committee on the bus regulations, denying the statement reported to have been made beforo the Committee by Mr. W. S. Bussell to tho effect that tho advent of the opposition buses in Christchurch had tended to make the tramway conductors more courteous and obliging, and that the trams would stop at any place to pick up passengers. Ho had pointed out that conductors at all times had recognised their first duty waa to tho travelling public and they had always been most courteous and obliging to them.