THE CONDUCTOR AND INSPECTOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1261, 17 October 1911, Page 4

THE CONDUCTOR AND INSPECTOR.

A DISMISSAL AND WHY. IBy Telegraph.—Press Dunedin, October 16. A sitting of fcho Tramway Appeal Board was held to-day to consider an apiteal by John Fitzpa trick, conductor on tho city oiectric trams, against his dismissal. Fitzpatriek was dismissed on September 1 for alleged unsatisfactory record, and especially on tho ground that ho had made a e?rious charge, without tho slightest foundation, npainst luspoetoa- Golden, and (Ihcit ho had mtulo contradictory btatenieaits) to tho niannser (Mr. Alexander). Tho Ixxird was composed of Mr. H. Y. Widdowson, S.M. (chairman), Councillor J. .1. Morlow (ropresonting the Tramwnj-e Departmont), >rr\ Ms , . W. Belcher (representing tho Tramways' Union). The facts as stated were that, or,« morning, two girls'overrode the distance- for which they had iviid, and this was <cisoovcrod by the inspector wlien ho Ixxwdod (he car. In his own report Fitzpatrick aooused Ins];cctor Golden of haying made a ('also statement when he said that ono girl had paid by means of a concession ticket. It was also admitted that appeJlnni had inado contradictory statements to the maiuiper over tho niot« tor. Fitzpailrick had lxwn twice previously diVmiwcd—once for iwobrietj' and, on a second occasion, for breaking a promise, to abstain from lirjuotv Appellant said that he considered that Inspector Golden had, oji a previous occasion, dono his best to get him di«;mifw.i, mid ho contended that," in l.bis case, tho punUhmeut was too sewiv. Tho board resotved dwinon.