THE RIGHT TO APPEAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16138, 15 January 1913, Page 10

THE RIGHT TO APPEAL.

ALLOWED BY LAW IN ALL CASES. APPELLANT TO BE REINSTATED. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, January 14. The hearing of an appeal by George Lamborn, gripman, against his dismissal from the • service of the Dunedin and Kaikorai Tram Company, was concluded before the Tramway Appeal Board this afternoon. Th 0 Magistrate (Mr Widdowson), in giving his decision on behalf of the Board, said that a preliminary point was raised by Mr Stephens that an appeal did not lie. as a week's notice had been given. The Board held that section G of the Tramways Amendment Act, 1910, gave the right of appeal in all cases, and came to the conclusion that appellant's dismissal from the service of the company for the reasons given was too severe, and that it should be set aside. The determination of the Board was that appellant's "dismissal being too severe, it should bo set aside, that in lieu thereof appellant should be suspended for two months from November 27, 1912, and that appellant should be reinstated in the servico of the company as spare gripman on January 127.