RAILWAYMEN HOAXED
“OLD BLAJOK JOE” AGAIN. AUCKLAND, October 17. Railway officials were forced to take rapid action a moment or two after six o’clock last evening when they received a telephone message from the city police to the effect that “Old Black Joe.” the mysterious “railway foe,” bad interfered with the fine within the Parnell tunnel. The Whangarei express was - due at Newiparket at 6.3 p.m., and word was sept to the station officials there to hold it back until the line had been inspected. A porter was dispatched to run along the line from Newmarket to the Auckland station, and it is said that he covered the distance in record time. No trace of any interference, however, was found,- and the Whangarei train resumed its journey less than 10 minutes late. The police had received their information in a brief telephone message from a man who called himself by the name quoted. He said he had “fixed” the tunnef line, and then rang off.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1931, Page 8
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165RAILWAYMEN HOAXED Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1931, Page 8
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