TRAMS AT RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13111, 9 May 1908, Page 7

TRAMS AT RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

..'■■'.■ ■ ■ - ■•-• ',;»• ''■':'' :l:^: : :/^i At -the meeting -of Board -, last week there was■"■eame w| cushion :is to delays causedAtbV^nwae '* by trains shunting at; £be-wosaiiig*,■£ 3lr S. F. Whitconibe, (Manager of Railways,, Tal Manager's » i"eoiaricjs made during ithe discussion■ byj^Mri: , Wood, t«ho Board's trafißc manager. As— this statement was -published-in %iher: papoie, Mr Konavne, tlpttke. it ■ <io© ;- to the Railway liepartmerafc iifchai '-'iib'z shouid be Mblidy contradiotedj vind'H asks that the following lefcber, ; %ritt«aH by Mr Whitcombe toitoi>&»Tdi&MkM' be -»u!blished:—' ■■■■■' : :---\: '•', ■■■■■:':'^U^:> I :^M . ■:•.. ■-■ (Copy.) i'^-v.^'^i:^? CTmertehnrch, Bth -iH The Chairman,' Christciiuroh, ■. ■ Boa^/Christclmit!hsv r K^'^iS; ; ie Sir, — at- railway; In the published import of voerißbax&'e meeting on lie lowing extraordinary ; «id untruthful statement, alleged to have been- made by one of your employees, a, Mr Wood, in answer, to a Miegestion by Mr C. M. Gray that the matter should be referred to tile: Traffic Manager of the Railways :—"We write,to . hint erery week on the eain'e matter, bu4> we j «an get no -satisfaction from him." The •amou-nt of reliance which ■ is to bey placed on this cfikar'e etaiemeirte oaii ; = best be gauged when I inform y<m that we have 'received , exactly : fire; letfcerel in the last twelve months •(ft>tjr\fipoiw? Mt Wood and one from the The dates are as October 17th, October - 22na£|lj-JWof|j April Ist and 9th, these cases the. delays ;: Trleiiftfena6ixett : in.to- and 'tin <»^an.iti6a;Jpfen!Sto%oilit- :- officers. I this kind woeo irresponsible. do think that an mg to draw upcwi in~tEis way; and.*mst y4>vL':vrillsT&aaei way cc writ ijim-^^tte i&». dom of. adl^rtg^^^|^^»cte^ii] ■ hare l^n f a^rafcf«^tJie"p£Eo»!<>n;bui