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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4432, 26 June 1922, Page 4

A ccrrespondept informed the Otago Times of a recent incident which should serve as a warning to children who play about railway bridges. A boy, one of a number- of children who were playing on the bridge over the Waipabi River, near Arthurton, got his feat wedged between two sleepers which are laid very close together, and was unable to extricate it. While he was in this predicament a heavy goods train from Waipahi came in sight. The other, children had tne presence of. mind to run towards the train, holding up their hands to warn 'the driver, who, noticing them and taking in .the situation, stopped the train, and the fireman, going along to the bridge, released the boy, As it happened, the train was on an upgrade, and the driver had a good view of the bridge.. Had the train been proceeding the other way it would have emerged on the bridge from a deep cutting, so that It would have been on the bridge before the driver could see the boy, and nothing could have saved tne latter’s life.