BULLET STRIKES TRAM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23818, 20 November 1940, Page 8

BULLET STRIKES TRAM

WELLINGTON MYSTERY NO INJURIES SUFFERED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Tuesday About 11.30 o'clock on Saturday morning, passengers travelling toward the city by tramear from Miramar received a shock when, just as the car was emerging from the Mount Victoria tunnel, a bullet flew through the central glassed-in compartment. Fortunately no one happcncd'to be in the lino of fire, but people were within inches of it. Two members of the Air Force, who were sitting in the compartment, had no doubt that the bullet passed close to their heads. The police are making inquiries. The manager of the tramways, Mr. 31. Cable, said that there had lately been several mystifying occurrences concerning the trams. Earlier in the year there were several explosions underneath trams. These more resembled those of some form of bomb than of detonators, and some of the explosions had done slight damage to cars. There had been two more of these lately. In the case of one which occurred at Mount Victoria tunnel on November 1, he said the explosion was loud, and its force shifted some of the floor boards of the car, fortunately without doing much damage. A similar explosion occurred recently under a car travelling over the Oriental Bay section. In this case, too, the floor boards of the car were lifted by tho upward thrust of the explosion. Both incidents had been reported to tho police.