The Archive · 1941

Squeeze on Buses

Chinese Tells How it is Done To the Ealtor of the "Sorm-ciuka Day Ni '73 "in tne complaints about the bus Sin—1 sympathize nnd agree with

onuctors. They are. the. most rade Sind impertinent group. Not_s0 lonk Schoolboy "travelling on Bus No. f auiea for Ni ticket ater FiSa paid is fare, but the. conductor scolded him ud insulted him by getting some teaning tie conductors are squeeze the foreigners and we Chinese are to give our full support. To fhotiee one Chinese passenger: called down by a conductor for being 1 Chinese, because said senger refused to hand over his Hieket te be passed to another passenger.

'As far as T can see it, the squeczit of the bite conductors' is still going on, as strong as ever, Only we Chinese can detect how and when the heating is being done. Tt is very commam 10 see a. ten cent ticket pass out three times. From Seymour Road to Edinburgh Rond the fare "ten cents; a ticket snatched from a passenger' Retting off al Barden Roxd is to another party who gets off at St George's, and the same Hiekel is. snatched to be used again for another fare, This means. that thirty cents can be collected, but only ten cents turned in to the Bus [Ca. Quite frequently T see inspectors who do not ask for tickets from passengers getting off the bus, T do not know to what extent it practised, bil we ice Twas given counterfeit $0 cent notes, T think not a few of ts have been pushed and banged by the bus door.

Just axoruen vorcr

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