RAILWAY CARRIAGE LIGHTING
HASTENING ELECTRIC INSTALLATION
RESULT OF DISASTER COMMISSION'S REPORT. NEW REGULATION ENSURES RESERVATIONS. [Per Dmted I'kess Association.] WELLINGTON, May 21. THe work of equipping railway carriages with electric light in place of gas is to be accelerated, so that its completion should come about at least a year earlier than was originally planned. This is the result of the findings of tho Commission which inquired into tho Opapa disaster. The change over is not easy to carry out, as it involves tho withdrawal of cars in successive lots for refitting.
A new regulation enables the Railway Department to reserve seats in railway carriages for any particular person over any distance. This right tho department did not legally possess hitherto, as was shown in a dispute which occurred recently, when a traveller who refused to give up a seat, though it had been reserved for a wellknown official personage, was prosecuted, and the court upheld his claim that the reservation had no force.
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Evening Star, Issue 19255, 21 May 1926, Page 5
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164RAILWAY CARRIAGE LIGHTING Evening Star, Issue 19255, 21 May 1926, Page 5
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