DUNEDIN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10651, 11 May 1895, Page 3

DUNEDIN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

TO THE EDITOR. ’ Sin, —In your issue of May 7 appears a telegram regarding the railway accident at the Dunedin station. Wa cannot allow this statement to go forth without comment thereon.: Your readers would naturally infer that the two unfortunate parsons who received injury lust Saturday night had been “boozing up” ct the railway refreshment rooms, and consequently were the worne of drink at the time of the accident. W 6 beg to assure you that they only had one drink each, and were par-, fectly sober on their entrance and.their, leavingthe rooms. The followingpars,graph from the Otago Daily Times of; May 7 will testify to the facto as stated:—“On inquiring at the hospital early this morning we learn that the man' Macintosh and the young woman. Gullea, who met with an : accident at the Stuart Street , railway .crossing on Saturday night, are making EatiSißcccry progress. The hospital .authorities state .that there was no indication that th® injured parsons were under the duflueace of liquor at the time. The young woman admits,however, that she had haa; three,drinks during the evening.” We are no t in the .habit of serving people who are the worse of drink, well knowing, the dangers about a railway station. We have frequently to refusal-many whom'we think have had enough,before coming*to .the station, which fact ' numbers-./of | travellers by train could, 'and no doubt would, vverify if necessary. We have been' lessees' of the refreshment rooms' formal period of fifteen years, and the railway authorities have never complained aa to the manner ia which we have conducted the business.—'We are, &c., QEDDE3 & HUNTER. i