POINTS ALTERED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 October 1931, Page 4

POINTS ALTERED

SMALL BOY TAMPERS WITH LOCKING SYSTEM AT TARUKENGA DANGEROUS POTENTlALITIES It was reported to" the railway authori'txes q't Rotorua,, last Wedhesd'ay, that, the poxnts oix t^e main RotoruaAuckland Ixne , at. Tarukenga had been' ixiterfered with, , and instru'ctions were, xmmedi£fcely. given tq a linesman to investigate the matter. _ It. ; was found that the four holts holding down the coyer of the Jo'clc'ing systepq_ at the south eixd of Tarukenga, sfatxoh.' hacf been removed. afwf that ,th'e points co'ntrolled by this boi" had* been alfered. Tfie linesman spjkea .th'e poxnts thus" xhaking It safe for tfaxhs lo use the line. Ori invegtigatxohs feeing, madq xt was dxscqVered that a small bo'y had' been playing wi'th'. th'e b'plts oix Ihe covef of the lockxn^ and haa evidently altered th'e ppints; the youngster .was ,too young, apparexxtly to understand the dan'ger he was thus causing. , Had pte north poxqts been altered, it is very likely ( that a ti aceident" wpuld Ixaye,,occurred a$. the f,express whefx travellin^ downbill from Mamaku, ti'avels through tarukenga at a Speed approaching 40 fhiles per hoia.