ALLEGED DISCOURTESY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16806, 16 March 1915, Page 4

ALLEGED DISCOURTESY.

TRAMWAY BOARD AND MILITARY AUTHORITIES. : At yesterday's meeting ot the Christchurch Tramway Board the Works and Traffic Committee, in the course ot its report, drew the board's attention to the inconvenience which bad resulted uu two occasions lately in consequence of large bodies of troops being brought to "the cars for transport without any previous notice being miven to the Traffic Department. On the afternoon of Saturday, January 30. over one hundred men were taken to Cashmere Hills. The cars were much overcrowded, and room could not be found for other iate»ding passengers. On the following Sunday afternoon, niheiv en dots were brought to the tram at Redcliffs. 'I ho_ HBcer commanding th» Canterbury Military district was written to on both occasions asking him to instruct the reynoTwbl" officers to give notice to the Traffic De'~>rtment when *h«v intended usino- the cars for military purnoses No renlv was received. Threo V ro P l«ter authorities were reminded that no roplv to th<> lord's le+ters had been received. letter also remained unac I'«owl"dged. 1 '«owl"dged. TUo TTon -T. B«rr nsked ir any reply hid been received since the report wn<: drpf+od. ~, . ~ | Tl, e eliolrmw renlied in the negative, and the" clause was adopted without further comment.