FOR TIDY TRAINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 9

FOR TIDY TRAINS

PAPER BAGS FOR REFUSE

Some railway passengers evidently db not know that they have less right to throw fruit peelings and renwiahts of food on the floors of carriages than on the floors of their own homes. In the carriages they are expected- to have some consideration fori: other '': travellers who have paid for a right to a fair, comfortable use of the vehicles. Even the placing of metal receptacles for refuse in carriages has not checked the bad habits of careless offenders. Slippery stuff, cast in the aisles, is dangerous for passengers and officials walking through the train. Another attempt is now to be made :to cope with the i nuisance. As an experiment, i the air-conditibnedl cars on [the night "Limited" expresses from 1 Wellington and Auckland will be supplied with a quantity of paper bags* Fl2 by 9| inches with small metal eyelets by which they will be hung from hooks on the walls between the seats. The bags will bear this printed request: "Rubbish Bag—Kindly place any fruit skins or other refuse in this bag for removal by attendant." The Railway Department confidently asks for the co-operation of passengers in this effort to keep the cars tidy. If this experiment in the "Limited* proves satisfactory, similar bags will Ibe provided for other trains.