TRAINS RUSHED
Trentham Race Patrons (JJ.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 15. A packed station and shoving crowds was the order of the day at Wellington this’ morning, when everybody seemed to have only one object in view—to get out to Trentham for the Wellington Racing Club's meeting. Sixteen trains were scheduled to go between 8.50 and 1.22, some at intervals of only a few minutes. Tire gates and platforms had to be kept shut, except for a few minutes at a time, during which short intervals hundreds of people would rush through. As one policeman said, it was like a mob of sheep trying to get out of a pen. at once. There was a wild dash for seats. Women lost their hats and parasols. but none fell. That was fortunate as on a previous occasion when a girl did fall the crowd walked over her and she was only saved by a policeman dragging her aside. The police managed to keep the crowds to-day in queues and gave assistance in closing the gates, but this was only accomplished by main strength. At regular intervals the crowds were told through a loud-speaker that pushing at the gates was unnecessary and that there would be ample accommodation on all trains, but it was an unheeded voice.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22792, 17 January 1944, Page 4
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213TRAINS RUSHED Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22792, 17 January 1944, Page 4
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