VEHICULAR FERRY.
Your paper says it is hard to understand how the tragedy at Devonport occurred. May I tell you our experience much earlier the same evening? We just missed a boat, aivl a few minutes later another arrived, an<l. being used to the quick dispatch, as f-oon a* all the cars were off T started down the run way before I realised the boat had pulle-1 away. Luckily a man wheeling a bicycle had jronc ahead, slowing us down, and as wo all barked on to the wharf again an employee came and said he was sorry, but they h.i'l had no idea a boat was l>eing taken off :■" that hour. There ought to be a jrato erect<•,! to stop the cars,, as they have for th" passengers on the ferries. The sign door, not • seem sufficient warning when one has seen ears disembark and a boat apparently waiting for others to go on and knowing that it is not nearly time for the last boat. j " A TRAVELLING MOTORIST.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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