INVIDIOUS COMPLAINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 5

INVIDIOUS COMPLAINTS.

SOME INVETERATE GRUMBLERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Timar.il, January 3. Dr. G. E. Gabites, who was surgeon on the Maniari on her trip from Home, writes to the Herald to correct the impression conveyed hy the publication of complaints made in Wellington by some passengers that they were hustled from Dunedin to Lyttelton by special train on Chritsmas Day without reasonable notice, and that many had no food on the journey, while others got some at Oamaru and Ashburton refreshment rooms. Dr. Gabites states that they were warned early in the morning that they were to entrain at the port. The medical officer completed his inspection at 7.30, in time for breakfast at 8, allowing an hour for breakfast. They had still an hour before boarding the train alongside the ship, and they entrained quietly and without any trouble, their cabin luggage being placed on 'the train for them. There was plenty of room, one car being nearly empty. A large quantity of food —bread and butter, meat and cheese —was prepared for the passengers to take with them, hut only a few availed themselves of it, so those who had no food on the way had only themselves to blame. The doctor thinks that -those responsible for the transport are to be congratulated on the completeness of I heir arrangements, and that the complaints were probably made by some inveterate grumblers.