RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 2

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

<dv TiiMiCKiiru—ritrcss association.! Wanganul, April 20. " Tho North Island Railway ■■■Appeal Board is sitting hero to-day. Tho first ca'so heard'. was tlio appeal of All red nt.wii, late guard at Wniounij'. against a decision .dismissing lnnv - for alleged insubordination- towards' tho stationmaster' at Waiouru.' .Tho cvidenciS' givou was that the stationmaster -complained on tho railway platform of dorelictidn of duty oil \ tho part of the guard, which led to words, as a result of which't,bo stationmaster suspended him. Tho' question turns 011 whether .'. tho work tho guard was asked to do—claming points and station public conveniences—was guard's work. 'V- . > : Tho board reserved its .decision. . '■'■•: ; J. A. Shelton; shunterat-Marten', ; . appealed : . against his dismissal for his connection with ' a D collision which took placo nt Marten on February 2,-1909. ; -'.Appellant contended that his was not to blamo for tho collision. It was tho custom for- tho shunting engine to take vans from tlio Main-Trunk' train and inn , them 011 to tho loop, line to await the arrival ' of the Now-l'lymouth-Welliugtoir mail train, to which wcro then attached".- To m.ako' ' this transfer, it was nccessai'v' for .the shunt "... to foul tho main line. On tlio day. iu qucs' tiou tho appellant, said flio was asked by tlio stationmaster to make t(ie shunt, Mid ..lie did so, assuming that .tlio stationmaster would / seo t-liat tho semaphoro was kept at .danger'■ ■ during tlio operations,.-: No sooner,' however,,, had tho shunting ohgino got on to -the main lino than tho mail train, -which was running late, arrived and a collision" took placc. Tho case has not concluded.