"CALLOUS RAILWAY OFFICIALS”

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1911, Page 3

"CALLOUS RAILWAY OFFICIALS”

TELEGRAMS.

TRAFFIC MANAGER’S STATEMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL TO THE STAR.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In regard to the complaint of the refusal of the Railway Stationmaster at Cass to allow the transport of an injured worker by goods train, the Traffic Manager here makes an explain ation. He states that he was informed that Mrs. French wished to accompany her husband, but the station master at the Cass could not allow her to travel in the guard’s van of a goods train without authority from the Traffic Manager. He telegraphed urgent for that authority, and a reply also telegraphed urgent was sent giving the necessary authority for Mrs. French to accompany her husband. Mr. Stringleman stated that the probabilities were that the last mentioned telegram did not reach the station master till after the departure of the goods train, and that in the absence of the telegram the station master did not care to take the risk of breaking the regulation prohibiting women being carried in the goods van. The station master who was in charge at the Cass at the time was then on relieving duty, and his explanation of the matter, whicli has been asked for, has not yet come to hand.