PRO GERMAN TRAMWAY MEN.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 21, 26 January 1916, Page 2

PRO GERMAN TRAMWAY MEN.

CHKISTCHURCH INCIDENTS. INDIGNANT MEDICAL MAN. One of t'ie - best-known doctors in Christclmrch, Dr. Brittan, of Papamn, failed to observe the precept of the tramway regulations, and the result has been a chapter of Revelations and the placing of the doctor in the quandary that he declines to ride on tramcars in his section run by two particular motormen. One day the doctor, full of the waV, remarked: "Motorman No. , don't you wish you were at the front?"

"No," was the reply. "I would not fight for anyone."

"What! If the Germans were to come here and you saw one of them attempt to murder or ' violate your wife, you would not do anything for her?" "No, I wouldn't." "Why?" "I could easiJy get another wife." That was rattier a shock to the doctor, but his genial habit of a word to the tramway men to get a further shock. 1 To another motorman the doctcr made a remark about the Lusitania outrage. The motorman promptly retorted: "The Germans were perfectly justified in doing it —everything is fair in love and war." Dr. Brittan exclaimed: "Pull this car up and let m e off, or you will be on the road before I am." He was let off the car, and so Indignant was h e that he saw the police, | the tramway officers, and the Defence ' officers as to the undesirability of ! people with such views being in the service of the public of Cliristchurcn when other people of much less harmfu> opinions wcV'e interned. None of fch-3 officials could do anything beyontf deploring the incidents. The doctor, however, feft that as a citizen he hid no right to b e morally debarred from , l-ravolling on particular tj'.'ams bccativshe would not be carried by men hole! in£ such views at such a time, and lie wrote to the Tramway Board. From the Board he has now recoivod the following lettrtr:—-"With inspect to the complaint by y<•:: of unpatriotic remarks of tramway em- p

ployees raid —-'—, I luiwe to spy that the Board's Works and Traine Committee, while sharing in your detestationo of such conduct, was unable to s?e its way clear to take any drastic steps in the meantime. T-h? natter will, however, be kept in mind.'*

"I congratulate the lcsers," remarked Mr. C. Parata, skip of the winning team in the Pairs Championship at the bowling tournament at Chrisichurcli. "They played a very fine game. I was in trouble, but the god:3 of my ancestors came to light and helped me through; otherwise I was down, dead; but they came, and that is how I won."

The Railway eview pays: "Wc ".v« puzzled to know what the Railway Department means by dismissing men from the workshops- and advertishu for men in the" public press. Does anybody know why they do it? How many people control Railway Department policy? Surely it is not Mr. HiJey who sets the pace. We have it! The General Manager is forgetful! Ho can promote several sorts of policy with cheerful abandon, all in the same week, and he follows the Biblical injunction never to let his left hand know what his right -hand doeth! He signs his 'policy' letters to the A.S.R.S. with his right hand! If anybody else can provide a more plausible so'Aition, let him try!"

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