CHOOSING PASSENGERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16795, 20 July 1920, Page 6

CHOOSING PASSENGERS.

ACTION CANNOT BE TOLERATED Per Press Association.

WELLINGTON, July 19. The refusal of the crew of one of the vessels of the Union Company to briny Sir George Clifford to Wellington was leferred to as one of the reasons urged in support of tho demand for the" early comlpetion’of the South Island Main Trunk, raiftvay by Mr. G. Forbes, M.P., speaking for tho deputation to the Prime Minister to-day. “Wc know tho difficulties about the ferry service,’' said Mr. .Forbes, “and these difficulties are not getting less as time goes on. Wo find that discrimination is used as to what, passengers are to lie carried. We,members of Parliament ace faced with the possibility that' if wo happen, any of us, to make a speech in tho House’ which is Tiofr pleasing to our Labour friends, wo may bo denied a passage. This will mean extra expense and'inconvenience to us, and you, Mr. Massey, are faced with, tho extra expenditure of having to put the Tutanokai on for the run.” Mr. M'CMlum; There are plenty of oil launches in tho Sounds.

f Mr. Forbes said that the Government should push on to got the line through to Picton, and to promise a better ferry service than at present existed. Mr. Massey,, in reply, said that this point had been a good argument in favour of the construction of-the line—certain passengers being loft behind by cno of the Union Company’s steamers. ‘‘Things like that,”, he said, “cannot bo tolerated in tins country by this or, any other Government, but I have to admit that if we have to wait for the construction of this lino there may,be many such instances.”, . ' '