LEVEL CROSSING PERILS
DEPUTATION TO' THE MINISTER '■: , ■ OF RAILWAYS, (By Telegraph.—Plea • Association.) . Auckland, February 9.. The level crossing question was mentioned by a deputation which interviewed the Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister of Railways. A:, member of the deputa- ..-. tion asked when the Department might ~ ,be expected to announce'its policy in . .regard'.to this serious matter. ,- rhe Minister Stated that-he was not : , prepared,to discuss the. wholn question at-the moment, but ho could assure them that tho Department, was alive to the'necessity.that something should bo ; done to minimise the danger. Reports . upon dangerous crossings all over the country were i'eing made, he added, aqd • the Department might adopt ..some system of signals,. arid, in some cases; rernovoUho '."stop" notices furtlief back. "It will be impossible," he continued, "to erect bridges over evejry level prossinc'in the Dominion, but if. the public . will -assist us, our burdeM will bo reduced considerably. Complaints from engino-drivera and other officials Are ; . Bornetiniea received of motorists racing trains to tho crossings, thereby courting . danger and increasing the anxieties or . the railway servants,' 1 '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7
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175LEVEL CROSSING PERILS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7
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