Magpie Caused Recent Fires In Railway Stations
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, WELLINGTON, NOV. 1. No charge 'w'iil be preferred in connection" with the recent fires in the central rahway control signal:ling system. a't and between Ta^a Flat Station and Wellington Station. The cqlprit is dead. The principal cause of the short-. circuit and subsequent fires was t'h'e falling, of a 33,000-volt' line, byt -a short.-circuit musV hgve heated the high tension line sufficieptly to meit it in the first place, and who dqnnit — a magpie. Reconstructing the crime, experts say that the magpie had one wing on thf high tension line and its, beak on the earth guard. Meantime, pending the cqmplete re-establishment of the corhplicqted eiectricai system trains are still carrying on under the teinporary system.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1949, Page 4
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126Magpie Caused Recent Fires In Railway Stations Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1949, Page 4
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