DRINKING ON TRAINS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —The nuisance of drinking on trains has assumed such proportioas that it has become a menace to the eafety of the travelling public. It is quite common to see bibulous bullies picking a quarrel with quiet jvassengers. On a recent date, while coming down from Canterbury in a carriage containing several soldiers on furlough— happy, healthy, and sober—wo picked up a weedy youth with a kiss curl on his low forehead and two bottles of whisky in his clothes. Although ho refrained, from his duty at the front, he demonstrated hie patriotism bv pressing his whisky on eomo of those gallant lads till one or two became tipsy. On behalf of the mothers and sister* of those lads, who were soon to bo met at their destination. I pleaded with the woody yooth, whose reply was " Oh! my mother has seen me drunk scores of times." My retort did not plen.se him, for he apologised and pleaded ignorance. I witnessed tho pitiful meeting at tho Railway Station.—l am, etc.. Black Mackat Dunedin, January 17
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16594, 18 January 1916, Page 6
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181DRINKING ON TRAINS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16594, 18 January 1916, Page 6
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