DEPARTMENTAL INQUIRY.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day
A Departmental inquiry will be held into yesterday's railway, accident. The regulations provide that all heavy goods or stock trains descending- the Wellington side of the Eimutaka shall stop at certain places (before approaching steep gradients to allow the guards to put on the waggon brakes. This was not clone yesterday^ and whether it was that the heaTy train carried the engine too far to enable it to be done or not will be ascertained at the inquiry. George Smith, the engine driver, is suspended pending- inquiry.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 10 April 1900, Page 5
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