KOPUARANGA STATION.
A DELUSION AND A SNARE. Kopuaranga township and railway station, after dark, are as black as ink.' The village comprises chiefly a public hall, church, school, and accommodation house. No-license has blotted out the '.'pub." There is no lamp at the railway station, and passengers travelling to and from the trains have to grope their way. Sev- « eral chains of a wheel track between the railway and adjacent paddocks form the approach, to the station, and in the wet weather, at night, travellers that don't tumble over on the line are apt to get drowned in the wheel ruts. Mr Hogg, M.P., who recently had an experience of .being suddenly deposited in the darkness, has written to the Minister of Railways suggesting that a few truck-loads of fine ballast should be spreadl over the wheel-tracks, and that if no lamp can be provided the station be made visible with luminous paint.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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153KOPUARANGA STATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10220, 22 April 1911, Page 5
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