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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 October 1913, Page 3

It is stated on good authority that a Licensing Bill will be brought down this session, the members ot the Reform Party having so decided at their recent caucus. A young man named Albert Nield rescued two fishermen from drowning at Dargaville on Monday. Another fisherman got ashore after a desperate struggle. They were working nets in the surf when they were carried out by a strong backwash. The failure of a hook-coupling released a train of 10 ballast waggons and a brake van en the branch line serving the Railway Department's scoria pit at Mt. Albert late yesterday afternoon, and the loaded waggons dashed down the line and into the dead end siding just above the Mt. Albert Station. Seven of the waggons were damaged beyond repair, and the main line was blocked for about half-an hour.