JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 961, 31 October 1910, Page 11

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

A HAIRBREADTH ESCAPE. '(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganul, October 29. St.'John's Hill has caught the tramway extension fever;, and residents there' have approachcd the "Wanganui Borough Council with a view to having the benefit of such a'service for that suburb. Tie councilj in order to' test the probabilities of payable traffic, is making the experiment of issuing' special tickets to- those people Jiving on the hill who make connection'with-the town ; service at the Glasgow Street' stopping-place. ■. ' v ■ Tlio dangers of level 'crossings—there are no'fewer than, twelve of th'cm, in Wanganui—was exemplified by ,a collision between a train and a cart at the Liverpool Street extension , crossing yesterday afternoon.. .The driver of.. the cart was, just crossing, the.' lino'.'.. when he found a heavy., goods,.'train- riglit; biv .him. Bv a desperato effort' fo'.fcian-'almost-cl«ir'; 'but; the 'Krtf was greatly damaged, " and, , the . hoi so somewhat knocked about,'the "'man himself miraculously escaping with nothing .worse, than a shaking. This .crossing leads to the entrance .of the , new Boys' College,' and, is ; consequently bound to;bo a, somewhat busy thoroughfar© in, the near future. Considered in connection-with' the dangerous Guy'tott Street crossing, the pressing heed for .the Railway '■ Department ..to do something to -minimiso existing 'dangers to traffic becomes evident.