A COMPLAINT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5581, 17 February 1879, Page 3

A COMPLAINT.

TO THE EDITOR OS’ THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sib, —Enclosed I hand you copy of a letter I have addressed to the Superintendent of Police, which I hope you will" publish, as it is a scandalous thing that travellers should be subjected to the kind of treatment whereof the complaint is made at any public house the driver of a ’bus or coach may like to stop at, especially where there are lady passengers. Of course I have omitted in the copy the oifensive language, but I have detailed it in full to the authorities.—l am, &0., Ohas. H. Ellady. Sunday, February 15. Sunday, February IC. SIR, —I beg to lodge a complaint against the man* ner in which the Albion Hotel, Taita, is conducted. The cause of my complaint is as follows Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon I was in the 'bus that runs between the Lower Hutt and the Taita, the only other passenger being a lady. On coming up to the hotel from the front bar my ears were regaled with such words as , , and other Indecent language, and on the 'bus pulling up one old man, I presume the most drunk of the crowd, came outside and asked the driver what ho would have to drink, and standing on the wheel of the coach, continued his conversation, interlarding it with the same kind of expresions particularised above. T asked the driver then and there how long he was going to stay, and whether it was his duty to stop at every low pot-house on his route, when ho drove on without further delay, but not before this man had said * * On this occasion there were no passengers or parcels either to put out or take in ; but if the house is a recognised house of call and necessary, I would ask you to see that it is conducted by a man capable of seeing that lady passengers, at any rate, are protected from the coarse language and insults of the blackguards that frequent it. I may state that on my mentioning the matter to one or two residents at the Taita, they said they had heard numerous complaints of the same nature regarding this particular house, —I have the honor, &c., Chas. H. Hllabv. The Superintendent of Police Station, ■Wellington.