A GRIEVANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 4620, 4 December 1875, Page 2

A GRIEVANCE.

TO THE EDITOB OF THE LYTTELTON TIKES. Will you pleaae allow mo a abort •pace in your columns to complain of the way the public are treated at the Racecourse Junction, on the South lino, by the crossing-gates being shut againstthem » and you may stand and call and whistle for fifteen or twenty minutes, and no one takes ony notice of it. So I asked one of the emploj/Ss the reason, when he informed me that the Traffic Manager bad refused to pay any salary to the gate-keepers—-only the house to live in rent free. I should be glad if the Government would allow some little salary to the gatekeeper*, or make Yankee crossings of them, so as not to keep the public standing in the pouring ram so long. I may also state that the shunter or stationmaster has to see to these gates when not otherwise engaged, but this morning I was kept standing at the gates for a long time, as the stationmaster was very busy, as usual, telegraphing, apd the shunter in the yard shunting the narrow gauge train. Now, X wish the Traffic Manager would let some one be appointed for these gates, as, if I am kept waiting, 1 shall certainly put the gates across the line myself. 1 must apologise for occupying so much space in your valuable columns. ' Your obedient servant, A TEMPLETON RATEPAYER. Templeton, Dee. 2.