TRAMS HELD UP.
Fall of Overhead Cable at Wellington. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, This Dav. The overhead cable on one of "the tramlines fell at 8.40 o’clock this morning and treated a large number of people to a kind of fireworks display until the power was shut off. The * tram rails were marked in several places, and the bitumen on the road surface was scorched. Tram traffic was held up for 15 minutes and hundreds of people finished their journey to work by going on foot. An earlier delay occurred through a tram missing the points at Manners Street
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 7
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99TRAMS HELD UP. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20626, 29 May 1935, Page 7
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