RAILWAY OFFICERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 23 May 1919, Page 5

RAILWAY OFFICERS

PROTEST AGAINST MINISTER'S VETO.

(by telegraph—press association.) rut « • AroKLAND, May 22. lne following resolution, bearing on the recent case of A. N. Longton in which the decision of the North Island iiailway Appeal Board in favor of appellant was quashed by the Minister's veto, was passed unanimously by the annual meeting of the Auckland branch of the Railway Officers' Institute: "This meeting deplores the introduction of the veto of the Minister upon the decision of the North Island Board of Appeal in the case of Longton, and regards this action as being subversive of justice and likely to destroy forthwith the present cordial relationship between the staff and the management; that this meeting pledges its support and' assistance to any constitutional means of obtaining reconsideration of the decision of the Minister, or to any other action which will ensure that the findings' of the Appeal Boards shall stand without revision by any other authority; that this meeting further records and expresses its sympathy with the chairman and members of the North Island Board of Appeal in the unfortunate position in ' which they have- been placed by the action of the Minister."