"THE PUIR MITHERS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 8

"THE PUIR MITHERS."

Sir, —Elsie K. Morton's article under this heading, with its sub-title, " Crosses and Crowns," has, I am sure, afforded immense satisfaction to many women readers. Space value precludes traversing each detail. She writes: "It seems to me that Auckland iis harder on its mothers than any other big city in New Zealand." Delete the word ' big' and you have a more exact statement —centres that Auckland could contain five and six times over display greater kindness. " Take that matter of a rest room. . . . How many years is it siince the agitation was first started ?" The; agitation is .just a little older than the present Town Hall itself, for the W.C.T.U. asked for a rest room to be included in the then proposed building. "It is only within the last few days that the Auckland mothers have been ceded the privilege that mothers in the southern cities have long enjoyed." Well, as a matter of fact, there may be some technical delay in the ceding, so it may be just as well to stay rejoicings for a little. " Then that other furiously-de-bated matter—prams-on-trams. . . In the public parks and picnicking grounds again there are gas rings and neating facilities, but Auckland has yet to follow the lead of the South. . . Sooner or later, no doubt, she will send an expert round the world to find out about the things they are doing (successfully in the South." That, as a matter of fact, is just what our City Fathers have done; our town clerk and our trams manager are away gleaning this and other useful information lying at their very doors—not that I disapprove of the trip. The suggestion that a prams-on-trams deputation should wait on the council would produce but one reply—" Wait until the manager returns." That manager has already been waited upon on innumerable occasions and received us with unfailing courtesy, but that has been all. Anyway, these two gentlemen have been charged to inquire, inter alia, into the matter of rest rooms and prams-on-trams during their sojourn, so let's go on hoping. Alice Basten.