RAILWAY ACCIDENT
EXPLANATION BY DEPARTMENT. (Per United Press Association). Wellington, May 26. The Publicity Department of the New Zealand Railways states that the accident at Tirohanga, on Saturday last, when public works employees were injured, did not occur on a Government railway line open for traffic, but on a temporary line laid down by the Public Works Department to facilitate the transport of material and ballast. The South Island Main Trunk line, running southwards from Picton and Blenheim, now terminates at Wharanui, and the accident to the Public Works employees occurred at a point some miles south of that terminal. In the ordinary course of events, any railway line constructed by the Public Works Department has to be thoroughly inspected and tested before the line is handed over to the Railway Department to be used for public travel.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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138RAILWAY ACCIDENT Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 8
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