Golden Casket Winner

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1949, Page 2

Golden Casket Winner

Mr W. Hardy, of the Savoy Private Hotel, Wellington, who was £1.5,000 in the Queensland Golden Casket art union, is a bachelor, aged 49. He is a farmer and shearer and thinks he might buy a sheep station. However, he has not made up his mind, and is not rushing his decision. —(P.A.)

Car Struck By Train A motorist had a narrow escape when his car was struck by the In-vercargill-bound express near Milburn station yesterday. He was Mr A. Thomson, of Milton. He was not aware of the approaching train until his car was about to cross the line. He just failed to get clear, the engine striking the back of the car, spinning it out of its path, and tearing off one of the rear wheels. The car was severely dented and part of the bodywork was ripped away, but Mr Thomson was unhurt.—(P.A.)

Gates For Level Crossings There had been 401 fatal and personal injury accidents at 310 level crossings in New Zealand in the last 12 years, it was reported at the conference at Wellington of representatives of the Railway Department, reading and local body authorities, road users, and the Commissioner of Transport (Mr G. L. Laurenson), yesterday. Experiments qf the effectiveness of warning devices conducted by the United States Bureau of Public Roads gave top position to automatic gates, it was stated, and the conference recommended that the Railway Department shoud install such- a gate on trial—(P.A.) _____