Suspected Sabotage At Ratana Explained
TRUCK DOOR MOWS DOWN SPEED LIMIT BOARD Per Press Association. WANGANUI, April 2. As the goods train which left Marton last night at 10 o’clock for Wanganui was approaching the scene of the railway smash at Ratana, the driver saw that the notice board limiting the speed of trains to six miles an hour on the bend and down grade, nad been broken. He immediately stopped the train, and found that the wooden post on which the board had been fixed had been snapped off just below the board. The lamps were still burning, and had not been interfered with.
After further investigation she concluded that the damage was deliberate, but subsequent investigations showed that the breaking of the post was the result of a small upper door of a truck which was open striking It.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 6
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