CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12650, 30 April 1903, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

"Parent" states that in the train going north from Dunedin on Monday lie saw three lads in a eceond-class carriage gambling at poker. Truly a nice schooling! He suggests that their employers should engage young ladies in their place, awl asks whether the guard should not have checked the fame, and whether it is right that our boys should be trained on tho Now Zealand railways to bo siiielors? " Justice " directs attention to tho ueceseity for the provision by the City Council of'better coiivoniencee for the public. At present tho railway station and tho hotels offer all that are in existence, ami this is extremely hard on the council's tram servants, became if they are, caught coming out of hotel promisee they are dismissed and no reason given. " E. P." liolds that it is quite time (hat railway officials wore armed with authority sufficient to prevent dangerous crushes on railway stations. Foolish and venturesome people are often seen hanging on to tho carriages after they have started to move, shaking hands with their friends, both on the platforms and through the window openings. This is a very dangerous practice, and ought to be stopped. Every nontraveller should be prevented from coming within a yarcl of an arriving or departing train. Tho porters and other officinb nre frequently hindered in their duties by those pushing and thoughtless kind of people., who always get in the way.