DEPARTMENTAL "JUSTICE"

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 2

DEPARTMENTAL "JUSTICE"

RESPONSIBILITY OF STATION- j MASTERS. A special telegram from Masterton i to the N.Z. Times says:—, ; , j Some.. Government departments ■have apparently a sense,of. dealing out justice which, is peculiar to them- j .selves,,,and .the; Supreme , ; Courts, this ; aftemo6n;• : w.a^^giy■e^l>a.■■;.:!?ample.:,<)'f -it.;-; In giving his evidence in a case in which reference, was .made to certain railway customs, the stationmaster at, Masterton stated that he was responsible for the whole working of the star in every .detail. '.. ■..'■'. The; Grown Prosecutor remarked: "But sui'ely the department does not 'hold.you..responsible for all the work of the officials on ;the station at the one time. If a dozen men were working at different places on the. station you oannijt se&"tnem all at oince?" ; , : -"I am -lield responsible all the same for ; t«hose menis - work," said the stationmasterV *"0n one occasion I may remark^ ■& • breach of; «a tablet re..gulation occurred in the middle "of-.'the night when T was.jn bed, yet,, the de- j partment held me responsible 'for the negligence of the employee and fined me £2." . (Laughter;) j