FLOODS CAUSED EXTRA WORK

Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1947, Page 4

FLOODS CAUSED EXTRA WORK

♦ EMERGENCY SERVICES WERE WELL ORGANISED The receht flooding in the- district resulted in a great deal of additional work for the railway staff, Levin Post Office and district traffic inspector. The stationmaster, Mr. J. H. Norman, said yesterday that considerable extra clerical work had been imposed on the staff through alterations to time-tables, train hold-ups and the transhipping by road of passengers and luggage between Levin and Shannon. The procedure, said Mr. Norman, was to ascertain from Wellington the number of passengers and quantity of luggage arriving, and . arrange for sufficient motor vehicles tc provide road transport. For some trains as many as fifteen buses and two trucks had been used. In addition to this it had beer. necessary to tdverse trains, service engines and clean carriages before their return tb Wellington. The traffic inspector, I.lr. Mi Kehoe, had to. he on the alert 24 hours of the day for possible accidehts, giving help to motorists generally and assisting in the smooth running of the shuttle service by buses and trucks between Levin and Shannon. Mails were sent by the post office direct from Wellington to Palmerston North by truck, instead of by the trains. The postal section at the Levin Post Office worked late hours attending to the despatch of mails by truck, ahd later ensuring that mails connected with and were pickfed up from late running trains. * The expeditious manner in which these efficient emergeficy services vere orgahised is praiseworthy.