MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15567, 26 March 1914, Page 10

MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN.

Sir,—' Sunday last at 12.30 p.m. a I gentlenran with a>6mall baby waited at I the Mount Eden tram terminus to catch a car so as to get to his home in Symonds Street in time for his Sunday dinner. He had wheeled the child out in a collapsible push-cart which folded up into a neat parcel easily carried in the hand or placed under a seat. When he attempted to board the car the conductor told him he >*ould not bring the pushcart ; he could bring the child but not I the little parcel tliat was a necessary part of the baby's equipment. Shortly after tho alnTost-empty car left, another" rarer t with two young children was allowed to get in because he had no little parcel of a push-cart. Gentleman No. 1 is a visitor to Auckland being here on business connected with the Exhibition. Naturally he was ignftrant of such an inhuman regulation, and his feelings and opinions on the matter can be better imagined than described. Very naturally he wonders who is responsible for such barbarous treatment of parents. No such rule exists on the railways, on the steamers, or on any other public conveyance. Even on the Auckland tramcars the rule does not apparently operate to prevent passengers from carrying large parcels, and even portmanteaux ; the only parcel seemingly t'or- | bidden is the baby's inoffensive push-cart. Is the Tramways Company allowed to make what rules it likes with regard to what may or may not be carried on the tramcars? ■ Surely our City Council reserved to ittelf the right to supervise- any rules ftracerning the comfort of all classes of tramcar passengers. And what classes of passengers are of more importance than i children ,and their parents? It is Ito be hoped that for the credit !of our fair city and for the future | convenience of parents and children, | this monstrous regulation will be can- , celled, and that visitors will no longer have ' cause to complain bitterly of man's in- -- humanity to mail in Britain beyond the seas. W. J. Gatbkby. March 22,