LIQUOR ON TRAINS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20256, 16 May 1929, Page 10

LIQUOR ON TRAINS.

PROHIBITION ADVOCATED. WOMEN REJECT PROPOSAL. [by telegraph.—press association.] GISBORNE, Wednesday. Proposals to ask the Government to introduce legislation to stop the consumption of alcoholic liquor on trains, with a statement that more protection was needed for women and children from intoxicated passengers, were considered too drastic by the Dominion conference of the National Council of Women at today's session. The remit, which was forwarded by tho Dunedin branch, was as follows:—" That in view of the prevalence of drinking of alcoholic liquor on railway trains, tho council urge the Government to introduce legislation making it illegal for passengers to consume alcoholic liquor on trains; and that the council is of. opinion that women and children travelling should b9 protected from the unseemly behaviour of persons under tho influence of alcohol." In support Mrs. Aslin said men often dashed to hotels near stations and returned with their arms, full of bottles. They then became intoxicated and proved a menace to women and children by their unseemly behaviour. Miss Carnachan, Auckland, said s'ae considered the remit too drastic, and that a complaint to tho stationmaster, for instance, would end in anyone causing ,a disturbance and drinking being removed from the train. Under tho remit a person wishing to take a small quantity of liquor for use in caso of illness would be prohibited from doing so. After further discussion tho remit was referred back to the Dunedin branch, with the suggetsion that it make any complaints to tho railway officer in charge.