EXPRESS STRIKES OBSTACLE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 532, 18 May 1920, Page 3

EXPRESS STRIKES OBSTACLE.

■ BETWEEN PAERATA AND RUKEKOHE. POLICE INVESTIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES. The passage of the Main Trunk train that left Auckland fa* Wellington on Thursday evening was interrupted in the Paerjrta-Pukekohe section through the ttigine coming in contact with a post that lying • close to but n|itafflWing to oTflcial adviw, J «citosslTOvfi3# catchee strikin>ihe-«)stacle, ginedriver alighted, and placing it aboard the train, the journey was continued -< to Pukekohe, where other hali?Was called ,to permit of the post being hande<noy*r **» the stationmasteF.. Lidet it wiis ; tleposited with the police in that district, mid investigations concerning the incident ni'e now proceeding. ■ ••: A chiej officer at Auckland Head i Office -*ft*he Department is inclined! f to - thet Klief that the posfewnmst have fallen from a passing, P*W. ' r;