COURTESY IN TRAMCARS
Sir,—l should like to protest against the accepted custom of children giving up their seats in the tram. Any woman entering a crowded tram, whether she be twenty or fifty, seems to regard it as her undisputed right that a seat should be given up to her. In fact in some cases whel-e the children show tho good sense to keep their own seats certain petty-minded individuals even go to the extent of reporting them to their headteachers. Of course, no child should hesitate to give up his or her seat to an aged or crippled passenger, but how can anyone who is well and active expect to be treated with the same consideration? Most children at the end of a school day, after at least two strenuous games of netball, hockey or football, are in need of rest, while, on the other hand, if there is one thing more than another that the average citizen needs, it is exercise. V. Patricia Hastings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22469, 13 July 1936, Page 12
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