A “LITTER” INCIDENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1929, Page 6

A “LITTER” INCIDENT.

' “ A short time* ago in a Tube station.” writes Miss M. E. Durham in the “ .Manchester Guardian,” “ F saw a man throw down a cigarette pnpci ease, a lius ticket, and some crumpled paper on the platform. * I hep; your pardon.’ said f, ‘ tin* litter-box is just behind you. Would you mind putting all that stuff into it?’ He replied furiously. 1 Mind your own business.’ 1 That,’ said i. ‘ is what I am doing. London is becoming celebrated for dirt and untidiness. We must all try to clean it up.’ He then made the a matting remark: ‘ I suppose you are a foreigner. I am English.’ thus expressing a belief that dirt is an Englishman’s prerogative. .1 flicked up his hits and put them in the basket. Everyone near laughed at him. Tad the ‘ clean ’ take action thus and shame the ‘dirty’ into behaving. And let the ‘clean’ see to it that il the ‘dirty’ persist in their dirt the law will make them pay fines that will meet f Ik* expenses of continuous litter-re-moving.”