RAILWAY INQUIRY

Evening Star, Issue 18670, 26 June 1924, Page 4

RAILWAY INQUIRY

HEADING GOITCL TIDED, jtrnr;;■: compli mkx ts tea rti ha (Per Uxhkd I’uisss Association..} WELL IXCTOX. June 25. Tim Railway board of liiyuiry eoneluded its heaainy to-day. Further aryunient for and ayainsl tile claims for increased waye, and improved conditions ’.core heard, “ I thin!: we may say that, when we stapled we had some (juaims as to what miyht happen,” icmarkod Mr Justice Fra/er at tii.j couchulini; slaves of tlm silt in;;,, this niorniny. “ho far as I am concerned, and I thin!; so far as the members • >;' the hoard ate concerned, we have been surprised because iiie case lias been ■ ■(•inducted without any iil-leeimy at all. 1 v.-a-, sail-died the dep irtnienl’s ease wonhl he well pre.-ieided Uy Mr Stcrliiwr, and i have been a._;reea)oly "surprised with (he abiliiv and care, with which Air Oonnollv has placed his side before the court. We'have bail le-s dillieult eases that have cniended over several wenus. His Honor remarked that the most dithen't wort; of the board laid yet to bn done. The Arbitration Court members had oHe-r appointments to yn to, but they c.'cr" onttiny those aside, and they would yet richt into tliis case and yet out their rcDort as soon as p.-ssible, not only bn-,-uise the case was important,, hut because (heir other work was vettiny behind- ihe order of reference nave them until July 31 to present, their report, but they expected that it would bn in the bands of the .Minister much earlier than that.