THE UNLUCKY NUMBER.
SUPERSTITIOUS TRAVELLERS. Superstition still flourishes in New Zealand alongside all the benefits of education, free from primary school to university. This fact the Railway Department has just realised in a mostjdefinite way, the popular objection to the number 13 having caused so much difficulty in running sleeping cars on the North Island Main Trunk expresses that official notice had to be taken of it. Passengers have so often refused to take berth No. 13 in the sleepers that the matter caused no end of worry to those who have to arrange the berthing list. Consequently all the No. 13's were replaced by neat indicators with the innocuous inscription 12A. But even this did not completely dis pose of the bugbear, for passengers sometimes found out that 12A on the berth corresponded to No. 13 on the official list, and more trouble ensued. It meant the destruction of some stationery, but the department thought it worth while to ißsue new berth lists so as to dispose of all vestige of the unlucky number.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 550, 15 March 1913, Page 3
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175THE UNLUCKY NUMBER. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 550, 15 March 1913, Page 3
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