RAILWAY DISASTER. P.OAIK, October II
A railway disaster occurred at Catenr.aro. It was the sequel to a disastrous storm and a series of cloudbursts which have ravaged Calabria and have Hooded wide areas, and destroyed many farmsteads. A train was proceeding by night through a heavy rainstorm and it was crossing the river Puiizu. when the trestles of the bridge collapsed. The lacomtive and the leading coach (lived into the cataract with the shrieking occupants, and they limited for one hundred yards before they sank.
Numbers of passengers were drown
DISPUTE OVER WAGES. LONDON, October II
A. i a mass meeting at Limerick. All Irwin (Vice-President of the Transport Workers’ I'nion), said that unless tin dispute regarding the wages oll’ered by the German contarctnrs for tilt' big Shannon River electrical scheme, which were below the union rates, was .settl'd. there would he no scheme. Tin contractors, he asserted, could take hack their gear to the Rhine. make elect l icit v in Germany, and send it tu Ireland in bucket fills. Air O’Brien (secretary of the Fnion) said that Irish Jahour would have icted similarly if the contractors had been citin'! 1 English or Scotch.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19251013.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1925, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
195Untitled Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1925, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in