Abolition of Level-crossings
HOME'-GOVERNMENT TO MAKE GRANTS. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright) (British Official Wireless.) Received Friday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 29. Asked in Parliament whether, in view of this week's railway accident at a level-crossing at Wormley, in which an engine-driver and fireman lost their lives, he would take measures to abolish' level-crossings, the Transport Minister explained that i'lie road access to the railway at this place was not a public one, but A private farm track. • • In order to expedite the ajbotftion of level-crossings, however, he would make a grant to local authorities from the Road Fund of 75 per cent, of the cost of constructing road bridges across railways.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 December 1934, Page 7
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110Abolition of Level-crossings Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 December 1934, Page 7
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