CORRESPONDENCE. ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —It is reported that there have been two more attempts to wreck trains on the Bunnythorpe-Palmer-ston section of the line. It seems most extraordinary to me that there has not been more notice taken of these murderous attempts. When a careless motorist drives over a railway crossing and gets smashed up there is a general wave of excitement and the New Zealand railway authorities urged to spend hundreds of thousands to safeguard other culpably careless drivers. It seems to me that these dastardly interferences with the trains fully warrant the Government spending a very large sum of money to trace the criminals responsible. I would suggest that inquiries should be made amongst the heads of the New Zealand expeditionary forces to secure a number of our men who proved themselves wonderfully clever in scout work and especially in night work in “No Man’s Land.” Put on fifty of these men to socretly watch different points of the line where the attacks are made—put on 100 if necessary. It is certain they would succeed where the police seem to be helpless. One has to look for a camouflaged lunatic or a misanthropist. Wo are an apathetic people where our own corns are not directly trod upon. 1 suppose when one of the express trains has been wrecked and many lives lost and many terribly injured, the community generally will wane up. ■"-T am, etc., TOCSIN.