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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 3 (August 1, 1931)

Every Safeguard Provided

Every Safeguard Provided.

The Railways Department has made the work of the shunter as safe as possible, and generally the men admit that few more safeguards can be applied. So that there remain risks that must be taken, problems to be solved, tricks to be worked. And it is these that make the shunters the dare-devils, the adventurers, the rough-riders of the Service. But, as is necessary, they keep their minds on their job every moment of the busy working day….

They have a cat in the yard which has caught rats for them for thirteen years, and not yet have they had time to think of a name for it.

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