WELLINGTON TRAMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21816, 20 November 1940, Page 3

WELLINGTON TRAMS

MYSTIFYING OCCURRENCES By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 19. About 11.30 a.m. on Saturday passengers travelling to the city by tramcar 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 happened to be in the line 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 a bullet passed close to their heads. The police are making inquiries. The tramways manager (Mr M. Cable) said there had lately been several mystifying occurrences concerning the trams. Earlier in the year there were several explosions underneath trams, resembling those of some form of bomb rather than detonators. Some of these did slight damage to cars. There had been two more of these lately. In the case of one, which occurred at the Mount Victoria tunnel on November 1, the explosion was loud and its force shifted some of the floor boards of the car, fortunately without doing much damage. Another 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 the upward thrust of the explosion. Both incidents were reported to the police.