WELLINGTON TRAMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1940, Page 7

WELLINGTON TRAMS

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCES. BULLET PASSES THROUGH WINDOW. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At about 11.30 a.m. on Saturday, passengers travelling cityward by tramcar from Miramar received a shock when, just as the car was emerging from the Mt. Victoria tunnel into Pirie Street, a bullet' flew through the central glassed-in compartment. Fortunately no one happened to be in the line of fire, but people were within inches of it. Two members of the Air Force who were sitting in the compartment had no doubt that a bullet had passed close to their heads. The police are making inquiries. The tramways manager. Mr. M. Cable, said yesterday that there had lately been several mystifying occurrences concerning trams. Earlier in the year there were several explosions underneath trams more resembling those of some form of bomb than detonators. some of which did slight damage to cars. There had been two more of these lately. In the case of one which occurred in the Mt. Victoria tunnel on November 1, the explosion was loud, and its force shifted some of the floor boards of the car, fortunately without doing much damage. Another similar explosion occurred recently under a car travelling over the Oriental Bay section. In this case, too, the flooi boards of the car were lifted by the upward thrust of the explosion. Both incidents were reported to the police.