LATE TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 7

LATE TELEGRAMS.

RAILWAY APPEAL CASE.

[PRISfI ASSOCIATION^] WELLINGTON, April 5.

The South Island Railway Appeal Board, Judge Haselden and Messrs Gray (Traffic Manager, Christchurch), and D. H. Jones (of the Dunedin workshops), sat yesterday to hear the appeal of S. P. Evans against the decision _of the department ,not to promote him in grade, Appellant conducted his own <jase, and Mr R. J. McVilly represented the department. Appellant, in the course of bis statement, said he was/ transferred: from Hillside to Newmarket,, one of the largest workshops to one of the smallest. When he left Hillside he was informed that no fault had been found with his management, and received a verbal assurance that his transfer would in no

way affect his promotion. He had no increase in salary since he reached "^£355 over two years ago. In March, *1907, he was rV-trangferred to the Hillside works: He submitted that his work at Newmarket and at Hillside was highly satisfactory, and that Mb present salary, was not in accord with the importance of the position which he holds. The manager of the Newmarket shops was in receipt of £400, and the manager at Addington got the same. The manager at Petone got

Mr McVilly interjected that the reason why Mr Evans had not been promoted was that his work between Ist April, 1906, and 21st March, 1907, had not been satisfactory. The Board will report to the Minister.