CARS FOR LADIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 6

CARS FOR LADIES.

_ Keferrinß to a question by Mr. Huntec in which ho asked the Minister for JJnill ways to attach cars, for the exclusive use of ladies h-avelliiur villi children to express trams, Mr. J. Payne (Grey Lynn) nsked whether the. question was jjot made in the interest of selfish lwchelors. Ho mentioned an advertisement for an employee by a Haivkc's Bay local l,odv, of which Mr. Huivfor was a member, in which it was stipulated that applicants must, have no enc.iimbrnnces Mr. Hunter stated lii.it li© was not present at tho mrelin? of the council at which the advertisement was anthori-Tcl rrpon seeing the in a newspaper, he referred to (bo cleric of tincouncil, and asked why such an advertisement bad hiyii put. ill the ptiper. The clerk, informed him Mint (Ito"council hnd lost the services nf a very competent person previously in eliarjie nf the tel"phone office, because she could not rive the necessary allention tn (bo work of the office nnil to b?r own family. As to whether his proposal in regard to sermratc railway carriages was put from selfish or humanitarian motives, said Mr. Hunter, this hardly required an answer. The proposal was ninde in the interests of people win hnd to travel second-class ,' n charge of young children. People who travelled nr.'t-class could usually secure a "liilHi-case" eomp.irtmont. Mr. Forbes accepted Mr. TTunlcr's assurance rejardins the advertisement, but enterpd a general protest asains! the description of children as encumbrances.