WELLINGTON TRAMWAYMEN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14725, 3 October 1918, Page 3

WELLINGTON TRAMWAYMEN.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Two shift meetings -of .the tramwaymen wero held , yesterday to consider aproposal by tlie Acting-Priirie Minister, suggesting a conference i before the Conciliation Commissioner. The projiosal has been agreed to by the men conditional upon the fresh conference being held not lateji than to-morrow morning. I'he City Conncil will meet to consider fcvir .lames Allen's proposal to-night. There were still a large number 'of men absent from duty on the traniCars j yesterday (says the Dominion of Tuesday), and the service was pretty much, of the go-as-you-please order. This made for intense overcrowding m. the rush hours last evening, even though n twopenny fare was. charged* those passengers traversing the city only un out-bound cars. No doubt a great many mdre people walked home, but the trams were so few and far between that the new order did ; not make much impression.'as .far as easing the overcrowding was concerned. How long the present state of ' 'armed neutrality" is t«* continue no one concerned is prepared to say. The men are certainly successfully hampering the service, if that is their object, and the City Council on its part appears to be taking thei Whole business -with philosophic calm. The real sufferers are the public. Those who reside m the suburbs are having a most uncomfortable experience for no fault of their own. *