A PROTECTIVE FENCE
(To The Editor' Sir, —May I suggest through your paper to the powers that be responsible for the Railway in Nelson that it is time that there were automatic gates put in at the Saltwater Bridge and that a fence is erected from the beginning of the rails to the wharf so that little children cannot get on to the lines. I am sure that every one who read of the death of the little child Hemi will agree with me that proper protection should be put there before any more accidents happen. I have more than once been walking to the Port, and did not know the train was coming behind me until it was very close behind me, and as I was walking rather close, to the rails it gave me an unpleasant shock. I think it must be hard to hear the Whistle if there is a severe wind blowing. There is certainly a great danger of young children falling into the sea when there are high tides. I have seen many very young children playing by themselves on the wall there—and if a fence were put up they could not do so. There could be a gate here and there if access were wanted to the rails.—l am, etc., ADVANCE NELSON MEMBER Nelson, 2nd October.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 2
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222A PROTECTIVE FENCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 2
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