DELIBERATE DAMAGE
INTERFERENCE WITH WARNING NOTICE NEAR SCENE OF RECENT RATANA SMASH INVESTIGATIONS BY POLICE By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, This Day. As the goods train which left Marton last evening at ten o'clock, for Wanganui was approaching the scene of the railway smash at Ratana the driver saw that the notice board limiting the speed of trains to six miles an hour on the bend and down grade had been broken. He immediately stopped the train and found that the wooden post on which the board was fixed had been snapped off just below the board. The lamps were still burning and had not been interfered with. After further investigation it was concluded that the damage was deliberate. Some person or persons must have given the post a a sharp wrench causing it to snap. The police are investigating.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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139DELIBERATE DAMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 7
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