DRUNK IN THE TRAIN.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your correspondent, " A.8.," writing from Tuakau, complains that a drunken woman was left at the Tuakau station last Saturday. From the tenor of his letter'he blames the guard that he did not put her into the guard-van. As a passenger by the morning train, I think the blame should be laid upon the proper shoulders, namely, the station-master at Newmarket, who should have refused to give her a ticket, and not permitted her to get into the train. She lay upon the seat in a beastly state of intoxication, and when the passengers complained, the guard removed her into his van. I stood upon the platform at Taukau when this woman got out of the van just as the train was about to start, saying she would not be made a prisoner. The guard tried to get her back, but sho attempted to re-enter the passenger carriage as the train was moving, ana the guard very properly stopped her. Now, if any person is to blame, it is the station-master at Newmarket, from where she started, and the person or persons who supplied her with the liquor to make her incapablydrunk. —I am, &c., Passenger.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6330, 2 March 1882, Page 3
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