POSTAL VANS.
DANGER OF ENGINE SPARKS.
P. AND T. DEPARTMENT'S
REQUEST.
SUPPORT IN CANTERBURY,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Referring to tlie destruction of a railway postal van, together with mail, in the North Island on March 1, Mr. M. Pattison suggested to the Manufacturers' Association that they should back up the P. and T. Department in its request that postal vans should be made of steel or else should be placed at the rear of trains, away from sparks from the engine. The Department, he said, had been negligent in putting a wooden postal van on a train next to the engine. It caught fire and only registered mail was saved. It seemed absurd that £1000 worth of goods should be carried in a wooden van next to the engine. The speaker said his firm had several hundred pounds worth of goods destroyed. It was not known whether any claim could be successfully niJide but it was rumouied that the P. and T. Department and the Railway Department would settle claims made on a 50-50 basis. It was decided to bring the subject before the Chamber of Commerce.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 72, 26 March 1931, Page 8
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