TRAMWAY UNIFORMS
LUMBER JACKETS INTRODUCED I PROTEST BY BOARD MEMBERS (Peg United Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 16. Strang criticism was expressed by members of the Transport Board this morning of the light summer lumber jackets supplied for the first time yesterday to conductors and motormen on the Auckland tram service.
"When I first saw them I thought: 'Are our trams being run by a board of: navviesV" said Mr Saycgh. Ho added: "They are terribly cheap-looking things, and arc like discarded old blouses that have been used by women about the house. The best thing .we can do is to call them in and get an entirely now outfit." The chairman (Mr H. G. R. Mason) explained that the tunics were adopted because they were a standard design for tramwaymen in tropical countries, after consultation Avith representatives of the conductors and motormeu.
Mr E. J. Phelan: Thoy aro a disgrace, and ought to be called in at once. Mr F. E. Lark asked that a report be furnished by the manager, with an estimate of the cost of another outfit. The matter was left over in the meantime.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22756, 17 December 1935, Page 14
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