RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 63, 2 March 1921, Page 5

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

PRODUCTION OF SERVICE RECORDS. Auckland, ‘March 1. A matter of importance to railway officers was the production at td-clay’s sitting of the North Island Railway Appeal Board of the service records of officers who had superseded those whose appeals were before the board. The hearing of the cases in question had been adjourned for the production of these documents, which the advocate for the appellanTs had declared was necessary to allow of a comparison being made. The chairman ruled that as the re-, cords were of a confidential character all witnesses should leave the room. The chairman also decided that there could be no limit as to the date to which the evidence might apply. The District Traffic Manager was then called and gave a general statemeu t of the records. xhe advocate for the appellants asked the board to indicate its ppinion upon certain of the existing regula. tions. in order that he might know whether the onus was upon the appellant or the respondent in disproving or provn. g. as the case might be, that the superseding officers had been rightly preferred to the present appellants. The board indicated that it was not prepared at the present stage to rule upon the point in question.