CONDUCTOR MISSED THE TRAM
The Maori conductor of a Wellington tram somehow or other got left behind recently. Passengers thought that at long last the opportunity had arrived of getting a free ride to work, but their pleasurable anticipations on this point were dashed a quarter of an hour or so later, for the conductor, all beaming with smiles, boarded the tram at the Basin Reserve, sized up the situation at a glance, grasped his punch firmly in his right hand, and before the erstwhile ‘buckshee” travellers had hardly time to recover from their astonishment, had collected all their fares. How the conductor caught up with the tram at the Basin Reserve was not explained, but presumably he had persuaded a sympathetic motorist to pick him up and embark upon a tramcar chase.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 87, 27 January 1947, Page 7
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133CONDUCTOR MISSED THE TRAM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 87, 27 January 1947, Page 7
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