CHILDREN IN TRAMS
Sir,—l was trained to jump up immediately and give my seat up smiling in any public conveyance to women with small children or elderly folk of either sex. Strange to say this did not cause me to have an inferiority complex. If I have a superiority complex it is because I have a clear conscience and the knowledge that I have always been . kind and courteous to women with young children, the aged, the halt and the blind. One writer suggests that children be permitted to sing while trams are in motion. I have a good, strong speaking voice, yet the tram conductors occa-. sionally have difficulty in hearing my request for a ticket because of the rattle of the cars upon the rails. I hope, therefore, that children will be encouraged to do their lung exercises in their own homes. My experience is that when these young rascals are not sitting in tram or bus they are riding bicycles on the footpaths or rushing off to picture theatres and ice cream shops. Victorian.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24202, 18 February 1942, Page 4
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