LATE AT HIS POST

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 3

LATE AT HIS POST

TABLET POUTER OVERSLEEPS Whether or not it was duo to a faulty idlarni clock lias not 3'ct. keen ide term mod, but the (fact remains that I'l-e oversleeping of a, tablet porter somewhere up the itnc yesterday morning caused the Limited t° jam'ijvc’ in Auckland - hajlf an hour late. In recent tunes the Limited] lias had a good record in adhering to time-table. With tablet systems it is as 1,1 b law of the Medes and Persians that m, train shall proceed until the tablet for the ectioai of lino ahead is in the hands of the train officials. There may be the best of reasons for believing that the section is clear aiul that no approaching trains are ‘expected. Still the rule of the railroad is, “No tablet, no right of entry.” Much as railway officials may regret such a hold-up t'h-.V arc- well instructed in the axion that it is better for a train load of passengers to bo kept waiting on the right side of the tablet station than to run the risk of a disaster occurring on, (be wrong side. Passengers all the- world over dfiafe at delay.