THE PAEKAKARIKI TRAIN TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 1 March 1911, Page 6

THE PAEKAKARIKI TRAIN TRAGEDY.

Sir,—ln tlioil , vonlict on the P.iekaka. riki railway tragedy, the jurv are ro ported Iα have sialyl that although then might be more stnues nu the hill whicl might fall down, (hoy (the. jurv) had n< reeommondalion to make regarding llicii removal. To the average reader it would appear an absolute necessity, in tlin in> terosts of thn travelling public that \i there, is any possibility at all of the sloncs shifting, nr liable Ic be shifted, they siioviM be moved at ouce. A few slicks of dynamite would soon fettle Ilio matter, and, what: is more, ease the pnblie miiiil. Of course, another stone might not fall again for o. hundred years, but then asrain it misht do yo, and it ia as well lo remember that about eighteen monllis aRO a vtone fell in tho Jlaniiwalu d'ovßp, anil, ilprailinif an engine and four Iriii-lis co.-t I lie Department ov<>r • Ulin for repair?, be-ides eadaiiKoi'ing Ule lives rf the |iawn>;ers who were travel. liiiß on (hat partifiilar (rain, Jf {] l 0 juiymou on Hip I'apkalciriki !,.,,t happened lo have hern in ih,> pariiciihr car struck by this .(ono i,, tlm I.i'to 1 iiin en Ik 111 p fatality, nr even on the (i-iin they would not surely l, avc |~p a(o(| (] matter in sueli t. i-nsual manner As for (ho b'aihvay Uenaitinoul, well if (]i',. v pci-sist in doiiij! no'.hiiij;. on their hoads uo the consequences.— 1 ;\ni, etc. TKAVICLLEU.