A remarkable accident occurred to a f,>~-.',> re«.icW.t of Pnlmerston Yorth. While driving a cow acros3 a paddock she turned ronnH ouickly to *tor> animal from getting away, and in doing so broke her fesr On Wednesday a numbei of gentlemen learnt for the first time how slow the trains on some of the branch lines in Canterbury could be. "It was pitifullj slow,'' said one man. " I didn't mind so much that it was 50 minutes late in covering a journey of something over 20 milea. What broke my heart was when a lady with two children in a pony gig passed us!"
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Otago Witness, Issue 3031, 17 April 1912, Page 66
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