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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9692, 21 June 1917, Page 11

A Christchurch gentleman who is W frequent and regular traveller between Wellington and Lyttelton, in conversation with a “Lyttelton Times’’ reporter, referred to the fact that the stewards on the terry boats were usually most solicitous for tho comfort of menfolk at tho port of arrival, displaying great eagerness to carry than luggage, even where the modest grip or valise could not be deemed any encumbrance. ' Ladies with children, however, were .only too often loft to shift for themselves. Seeing, he saw. that the court had decreed “tipping** illegal, and that tho stewards had chosen a higher wage and no tips to tho old conditions of lower wages and unlimited rights to tips, this traveller thinks that tho women are entitled to greater consideration, both at Wellingf ton and Lyttelton. A hoy of fifteen faced Mr L. Q. Reid, S.M., in the Juvenile Court yesterday morning to explain why he had taken £25 out of a coat he found hanging up in the American Lounge in Willie street. He could give no satisfactory explanation Ittranspired that lie had been committed to the Weraroa Training Farm in 1910, and that there were four convictions recorded against him. The magistrate decided to send the boy back to the farm, after giving him a severe lecture. With regard to the proposed discontinuance of the sending of parcels to the front under the Dominion gift scheme of the patriotic associations, the following extract from the letter of an Auckland soldier is interesting (says the “Herald”):—“The parcels sent by the Ladies’ Patriotic Leagues all got to the front aii right and the men get them. There has been a lot of talk about the men not getting them, and their being sold in the canteens, but it is not true. Tbe only thing that causes all the' growling is that they do not arrive at me front in largo enough quantities to give every man one, so they are generally drawn for —that is, so many arc issued to each company, then the company divides and issues so many to each platoon. The platoons, again, divide into sections, and there may be eight parcels for a section of twelve to sixteen men. Sometimes they open up the parcels and divide the”contents among all the men, and sometimes they draw lots fot them, but the stuff goes to the men all right.’'