RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 28 June 1909, Page 3

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

■ ■ ■ ■ • [PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, last niglit, ;_■• A jmmb'er of appeals by railway men to the North Island Railway Api>eal Board have been dealt with by the Minister of Railways. Thos. Edward Hutchings, train examiner, at Woodville, and A. J. Seaton, train

examiner at "Cross Creek, appealed against their reduction from grade 1 to grade 2, in consequence of the general revision of tho classification list and following the Act of 1907. These ;im])P!>!.«. though favourably reported on l;y the Hoard, were disajiowed by the -Minister. James McGurk, euginedriver, and -1. A. Shelton, shunter, appealed against their dismissal owing to a collision between the shunting engine and the mail train at Marton. These appeals were disallowed. The Board had suggested a reduction of , penalty in McGurk's case. The appeal by H. J. Donovan, boilermaker, Wanganui, against the withholding of sixpence increment provided by the Classification Act was upheld.