BOY'S SERIOUS ACT.
PLACES STONE ON LINE. ACCIDENT TO TRAIN. : ; ..... Charged with obstructing a train: at Johnsonvillc by placing a stone oh the lino, a boy (aged 12) was admonished "and discharged by Mr J. 11. Salmon, S.M., in the Wellington Children’s Court on Saturday morning. The evidence showed that the boy, while playing with two younger children who were placing stones on the, line, brushed aside the stones and placed a fairly large piece of rock on the track. When the Paekakariki train, travelling at 25 miles per hour, reached the spot, the driver saw the stone too late to pull up, and the two front bogey wheels were derailed, damaging the track for some -distance. .. After pointing out how serious! the offence was, and how the train might easily. have been .derailed' with consequent loss of life, Ilis Worship said he would deal leniently with the youth .on account of his age, and the fact that his father had undertaken to keep him onder strict supervision in the future.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19270426.2.20
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 April 1927, Page 5
Word Count
171BOY'S SERIOUS ACT. Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 April 1927, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in