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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19352, 4 September 1934, Page 2

Unenviable Distinction.—Although women in these days demand and, generally speaking, arc conceded, equal rights with men, the weaker sex still retain a few of their old privileges. One of I hose is the right to any available seating accommodation on public conveyances. Such, at least was I lie belief of a visitor to Dunedin, but. a few nights ago he had an experience which has given him the impression that, this unwritten law is not observed in this city (says the Olago Daily Times). When travelling on a late ear on the Mornington line, he was surprised to find all the available seats occupied by men, while a number of women, many of them encumbered with parcels, were compelled to stand and to cling on, almost with tooth and nail, to any angle of the car which offered a foothold. The sight was too much for the visitor, who openly remonstrated with the men and informed them that in the course of world-wide travelling lie had been in only iwo places where men remained seated at their easo while women stood —Germany and Dunedin. But the men stilt remained seated.