A DANGEROUS CROSSING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 4

A DANGEROUS CROSSING.

. {Sfryr-There has.'.boen.another narrow escape from v pertaip'death. at the-d'aiigorous'railway-crpssmginparythe .Gretiia Iwfcl,; Taihapo.. A/child Ywas ; .riding ■ h'er; poriy'dpwri the"hijl, jipproaching the:,crossirig, arid'.neitHer./saw nor,heardi,tho ; ,train..-.Eupkily, .however, ,tho' pony ,i, with; -i more /.acute , sense '{'of ( . hearing,' •ptopped-i short .of its own" accord" just as,the, ' train -dashed... past: at',;,about, three-quarter 'speed.,,, Had. the.Ypony« not .stopped a, fatal accidentjriiust/havo'.'oceurred... is it that; nothing 'hadYbeen.'done. in this-; matter: of, ; vital, importance? Wofhear rumours that something will be' doiie':'iri. diie' course' after the .'Minister-has .gone over all :%>., railways, but,, sir,-,-as sure as,. night follows 'day, -ijf ; sbmothing is not; done at bnce{someone .will ;be killed, and : {theri iWhat- consolation ,'*ill it;bo.:tp ; the'bereaved.,bnes-,to,be told "the Minister..Qf,{Railways' has .thb matter, in hand, and /something; will',, he .done' by arid-,by,!. ,\Vould'.;not.tho.bereavcd pnes-'be.justified in calling for vengeance o'ji th,o heads 'of; those who .have 'ignored .warning .after warning .'and petition after petition,: arid .who, being" un-; 'interested' parties, themselves, care - riot ■-, one•jot ahont-.thpysafety pf.:,others.? :/.'i. ;. -;.'': 1 ' Trusting -,will> take this {matter : ."up{ in' your;.valujble : \etc, '.'.- {/ I''.'/v : '-;■*::{ Y.:-.';//.{':'/ '.;' : : {{, PARENT, a. ; ;.{;;- ,;.