RAILWAY APPEAL HOARD

Evening Star, Issue 17647, 28 April 1921, Page 7

RAILWAY APPEAL HOARD

MR SKINNER'S APPEAL. In opening the business before the Railway Appeal Board at Dunedin yesterday —the members of tho board being Mr E. Page, S.M., and Messrs L. C. Jolly and P. Gaines —Mr J. Mason, who appeared for tho department, said it was an appeal by Robert S. Skinner, station master at Port Chalmers, agahnS his position in the 1920 Do classification. Mr Skinner had previously appealed against his position in the 1919 I)s. That appeal bad been duly brought before tho board, and the board had upheld it. That decision had been given etfect to, and the appellant had been placed in Iris old relative position, which meant that he was put between Nos. 53 and 64 in grade 4 "of tho 1920 Do. Subsequent to the issue of tiic 1919 D 3 some ot the members who had already superseded the appellant in the 1919 D 3 had been placed in grade 3, thereby receiving a further promotion from grade 4. The members named by Mr Skinner as those against whom ho ■was appealing were R. H. Morgan, C. E. Fowkc, H. D. Lowry, and J. G. Rickerby. Evidence was given by departmental officers, these witnesses being Walter Bowles (district traffic manager, Dunedin), Alfred Kinsella Harris (district traffic manager, Wanganui), Ewen Carnoron (district traffic manager, Groymouth), Albert W. Morgan (district traffic manager, Invercargill), George A. Parsons (audit inspector), and E. J. Fleming (audit inspector), all being cross-examined by Mr V. R. J. Stanley, who appeared for the appellant. " THIS MORNING’S SITTING. Upon resuming this morning a certain amount of evidence relating to tho 1919 classification was admitted. Then the appellant’s case was opened by Mr Stanley, and throe witnesses were examined—R. S. Skinner (appellant), W. J. Wilson (assistant wharfinger to the Union Company, Port Chalmers), and J. S. Corbett (superintendent stevedore for John Mill and Co., at Port Chalmers). Tho board sat again in tho afternoon.