"THANK YOU"

Evening Star, Issue 18716, 19 August 1924, Page 1

"THANK YOU"

LESS USE BY CONDUCTORS. “Do you notice,” asked a business man of a ‘ Star ’ reporter, as they both journeyed townward in a tram this morning “ that tramcar conductors are not quite so polite as they once were?” The reporter owned to an impression that there was not so much employment of the word of thanks for money received. In fact, nowadays one can usually pick the recruit to the service by his “ Thank you ! Thank you 1 ” as he punches ticket after ticket. Not so very long ago probably 80 per cent, of the conductors used the phrase with a monotonous regularity that must have placed a severe strain upon their voices. It was a perpetual source of wonder to visitors, this “Thank you ” for the faro, and far overseas those visitors, returned to their homes, aud, interviewed as people who had seen foreign lands, would remark of Dunedin ; “It is the place where the conductors thank you for your fare.” Presumably tho men of the service are finding that the little courtesy is, after al|_, superfluous, and that they can better employ the energy that hundreds of “thank yon’s” drain in a day. Let it be said that they are no whit loss courteous in other more important respects. lo the mother with an overload of parcels and children and to the aged the conductors of Dunedin are now, as they have been always, full of consideration, and ready with their help.