RAKAIA RAILWAY COLLISION.
There was a short paragraph in . your issue of April 20, communicated by Press Association message' from Christchurch, announcing that a public inquiry had been opened there, to ,go fully into all matters bearing on this serious failure in the railway working. It appears that two of the chief officials of the Railway Department ..had been sent; on the 18th from Wellington to hold a Departmental inquiry, but on arrival at Christehurch they were transformed info assessors, and invited to take a seat on the judicial Bench. As tho stipendiary magistrate very. properly remarked, men in charge of the trains might have been at faust, but it would lie necessary to inquire into the' system under which the lines are worked. If so, can it bo right for the assessors to be taken from tho rank;* of tho officers who are responsible to the public for the safe conduct of tho railway traffic? Tho inquiry has been postponed to May 13, as the representative of the men intimated that many rules would have to bv {„ examined. PUBLICITY.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 3
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180RAKAIA RAILWAY COLLISION. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 3
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