MAIN TRUNK SMASH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 5

MAIN TRUNK SMASH.

WHERE SHOULD THE SLEEPBIWJAR BEf ..■§ By Telegraph—Press Association. "J dhrisicnurcb, Last Night. $ The Lyttelton Harbor Board this .-. morning adopted a resolution sympathy with the relatives of those 7 killed in the recent Main Trunk disM-'j; ter, also with those injured. -y Mr. A. Kaye said the sleeper should '.' not be placed in the front of the train, for in case, of accident those in the ' sleeper were far less able to help then- '- selves than were those in the open car- 'i riages. .., Mr. J. J. Dougall said that the sleep- ;> ers ought to be placed at the end of the 'A .train, to avoid the nuisance of people i passing through them. It mattered >2 very little what end the sleeper was, for Vl the chances of accident we?e even. It J wits a "panic matter," and he did not ■* think the Board should deal with it ■% Mr. Kaye said there was less chance > of a train being smashed" from, the rear .-l! than from the front. The end was not"! the proper place for the sleeper—not in":; tho night time, at all eventa. The eat *:'; should at nightfall be changed from the i 4 end to the middle. : % It was decided to draw the attentloij'yi of the Railway Department to the ter of the position of the sleeper. 'M