ALLEGED RAILWAY OFFICIALS' CALLOUSNESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13333, 23 March 1911, Page 5

ALLEGED RAILWAY OFFICIALS' CALLOUSNESS.

A SERIOUS ALLEGATION. Indignation at Cass. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. March 23. Complaint has been mado hv Mr* French, wife of a worker on the Midland Railway, at Cass, of callousness on the pan of the railway officials. French met with a serious accident on March 4fh. while at work, and his wife’s charge is that, on March 7th, a railway >-uard refused to take her husband to Springfield on a goods train. After the serious natur* of the inuries had been ascertained, the guard ultimately consented, but the stationmaster intervened, positively forbid, ding the guard’s taking the man on the train. French had to be driven back to his hut, and was not taken on to Christchurch hospital till the following day. Mrs French says olic has failed to obtain any explanation from the railway traffic office, and adds that the workers at Cass are naturally indignant at the brutal treatment of one of their number, considering that, as railway workers in out of the way places, the least the Government can do in.the ease of accident, is to give railway facilities for reaching civilisation with the least possible delay.