COLLISION OF TRAMS IN DUNEDIN
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ENDS SITTING
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 11.
The inquiry into the collision between trams, numbers 51 and 23, a-t the bottom of the Caversham hill on July 15 this year, when nine persons were admitted to the Dunedin Public Hospital and nine were treated and discharged, was completed today. Eleven of the 31 witnesses available for the motorman and conductor of tram 51 were called by counsel. Their evidence occupied the whole of this afternoon’s sitting, and counsel addressed the commission (Mr J. D. Willis, S.M.) this evening. The evidence called for the motorman was confined almost wholly to the characteristics of tram No. 51 as seen by motormen and former motormen of the City Transport Department.
The commission will report its findings to the Minister of Works (Mr W. S. Goosman). Mr Willis did not ask That the certificate of motorman George James Findlater should be given over to the custody of the commicsion. Findlater was earlier suspended from driving for six months bv the corporation after an inquiry by the department.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26886, 12 November 1952, Page 10
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