CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Re a “ Passenger’s ” statement in your issue of the 20th. I beg to state that I was travelling by the same train a r “ Passenger” and can safely say that drunkenness was conspicuous by its absence. The local football team was on board at the time but their conduct was exemplary. I have yet to learn that a person is not allowed to carry liquor on a train in this district, and treat his friends to it, as some of the male passengers may have been doing on the night in question. As there was no drunkenness on the train, nor any offence offered nor lodged by any of the passengers. Your correspondent before writing to the press should have complained to the guard, instead of seeking your columns, as he must know that a public servant cannot defend himself through the press. Further, the guard remarked to me in passing through the compartment I was in that it was one of the quietest Saturday night trains he had been in charge of. — Yours etc.,
E. WANKI.YN,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 24 July 1909, Page 2
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182CORRESPONDENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 24 July 1909, Page 2
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