TRAMS SMASHED.
Extraordinary Scenes. Press Association-Copyright. Melbourne, Marrh 15. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed when the last cable trams from Port Melbourne to South "Melbourne reached the termini at midnight on Saturday. Both lines are now' closing in preparation .of the conversion to electricity. Thousands of persons gathered at the terminal tram-s'heds and each car on arriving was bombarded with road metal. Six trams had every window smashed and every movable part was torn off by souvenir hunters. The police were heavily reinforced, but were unable to quel! the disturbance.
A serious accident vias narrowly averted as a heavily-laden tram and a trailer was proceeding to South Melbourne. An irresponsible prrson pulled the pin from the coupling and the trailer bolted 200 yards before stopping. At the South Melbourne terminus detonators' were exploded under tbe cars, but no one was injured. One youth was arrested for stealing a tram door.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 383, 15 March 1937, Page 5
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149TRAMS SMASHED. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 383, 15 March 1937, Page 5
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