RAILWAY EMERGENCIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2165, 2 June 1914, Page 6

RAILWAY EMERGENCIES

Sir,—'Acwjdtog to newspaper ..reparts, assisto.ji.t'e bfting hrgiight tp. ettffefCrs at the . re.ce.iit; fatality .at Whangauift.rino. wai proicr.g.''.-,! through lailuro to liiu| tho tablet, 'flife rcpoits reads; "Tho tiiMet w.i.s fnnnd at ft tuna.., and iiji. eagi'liawasinuwdnutly d'.s-patchcd, etc' Have 'the Railway Depart :r.e:it no regulations for working traflic when a. tablet is Wist, of through a. iai)!ct-niat;hiuo. failure? if so, w.iiy w?ne 1 hoy r.trt lnado use of? !l'he aocidt'nt happened aboui : 5 a,..m. Is iliere- any roa'ss>;i why this sce'tioli could i»t have besi'n worked, and the oughu; of the goads train uispatched to Frank km ,1 miction or lfajr.ilton .iis sson its thi? sutl'cici's cc.uld liiiva l)tie.ij gat ivita some of tlte carriages from til® rear 'of the Auckhind express ? Or, railing -that, a relini: train with medical assista.nee friiin Auckland ('0 ir.ilos) wight have reached Whangau-a-riiio by 1 ar r.3!) a-'m. .Smiio year <f'r fio back, 'the Hon. J. A. Millar, then Minister of Railwajs, a,ii.d Jlr. .M'V'Bt.V., Chief Rnilwiiy (i-ierk, want to Aus.traiiii at the expciiss* of the country, with an object ill view oi seeking iiiformatkiti svhicli iiji||ht assist tKo working <>1" the 'Now Zealand Itailways. Oil theii return thej yepoftcd.: 1 'Nothing to leans from therc.' ! To a. practical railway man, no matter where h.o is., or Slider what ciraym* j £t:i!!c<.s ho is travelling, train working 1 under different conditions 'is generally S His chief Mpie, and tf inijuiries had | been made these, .gentlemen would havo 1 willingly been taught hew to work trains, during tablet, block, electric, staff, or ■stirff and ticket- suspension, and would have -been, silo to advise aceordiiifily. It was high time that- :a new manager was iinported, and it stains that Mr. Hih y understands, the "r.uit oi' the xopos," and lii> \v|H 110 tllfl.t the stetfj is acliotfle'd lip to cleivl with Such .ati unfortnnnta affair should it agaitt aitn, Btp.j X RAILWAY MA>u AVcllington, 4\iaS 30., IDI-V.