DISCONTENT AMONG RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
IS THERE A PRIVATE DETECTIVE SYSTEM? (il TEKBGBAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. There is reported to be serious discontent among railway employees on Auckland suburban, lines. It is stated by several railway men (says the Herald) that already a number of employees have resigned from ths service because many of the guards believe that private detectives in the persons of a man and a woman are travelling as passengers on trains to catch the unfortunate guard who allows a passenger to override on his ticket. Possibly the guards are mistaken, but there is no doubt many of them believe that a private- detective system is in operation. Guards state it is one of the rules of the' service not to check tickets more than once on certain stated journeys, and that on ac-' ! count of this Tule it often happens that passengers who have tickets for, say, Papakura travel through to Drury on it without being detected by the ticketcheckeiss. It is stated that already twenty-two guards have been brought to book for' allowing people to override their tickets. This, the guards contend, is dvie not to laxity on their part, bufc to the operation of the rule referred to.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 95, 24 April 1911, Page 7
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207DISCONTENT AMONG RAILWAY EMPLOYEES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 95, 24 April 1911, Page 7
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