RAILWAY GUARDS-A NEW BOGEY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 6

RAILWAY GUARDS-A NEW BOGEY.

FACT OR MERE FANCY? ißy Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.! Auckland, April 24. There is serious discontent amorrj; the railway employees on the Auckland suburban lines. It is stated by several railwaymen that already a number of employees have resigned from the service, because many of the guards believe that private detectives (in tlio persons of a man and a woman) are travelling as passengers on the trains to catch the unfortunate guard who allows a passenger to override bis or her ticket. No doubt tlio guards are mistaken, but there is equally no-doubt that many of them believe that the private detective system is in operation. The guards state that it is one of the rules of the service not to check tickets more than once on certain stated jouriwys. and that, on account of this rule, p very often happens that passengers «;ho liavo tickets for. say. Papnlaira, travel through to Drury on them without beiii" detected by the ticket checkers, ft is'stated that already 22 of tlie rniards have been brought to hook for unknowingly allowing people to over-ride tboiv tickets, and this, the guards contend, is duo not to laxity on the part of the employees, but to the operation of the rule, referred to.