DRINKING ON TRAINS.

Evening Star, Issue 25168, 6 May 1944, Page 6

DRINKING ON TRAINS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As a regular railway passenger, can you inform me whether any discipline is maintained on our trains? Yesterday on the 5.10 from'Port Chalmers six Allied servicemen consumed two bottles of wine before the train reached Sawyers Bay. Apart from the easy spreading of germs in handing the bottle to each other they even offered it to the guard on duty. The carriage, a non-smoker, was absolutely blue with smoke, but the male travellers did not seem to consider it necessary to think of the other passengers at all. I was under the impression our railway officials were very strong on this point, but someone must have forgotten the rules yesterday.— I am. etc., May 3. Fellow Feeling.

[This letter was referred to the District Traffic Manager, who stated that the instructions regarding the above matters are very strict and every endeavour is made to check these abuses. If the correspondent will call at the District Traffic Manager's office and supply further particulars, the complaint will be fully investigated.— Ed. E.S.]