RAILWAY STOLEN.
How a railway twelve mjjes long was stolen has been told to the Irish Railway Commission. The line, which is the Birr and Parsonstown Railway, was built in 1868, and abandoned a few years later. Then the people began to steal the metals. The Chairman (Sir Charles Scotter): This is most extraordinary - the people of the district saw this liiie gradually disappearing, and they took no action. Mr Healy: Yes, they did; they took a bridge. (Laughter.) Mr Trench: Oh, no; the police prevented the bridge from being taken. After this looting of the railway a man came down with cranes, intending to carry away the girders, but the sergeant of police took it upon himself and prevented him from taking it away.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8464, 14 June 1907, Page 3
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125RAILWAY STOLEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8464, 14 June 1907, Page 3
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