SERVICE RECORDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10838, 2 March 1921, Page 5

SERVICE RECORDS

IMPORTANT RAILWAY MATTER. PLEA ON BEHALF OF SUPERSEDED OFFICERS. PZli. FRfcHl* APSOiTT ATIO.V. AUCKLAND, March 1. A matter of importance to railway officers was the production, at to-day’s sitting of the North Island Railway Appeal Board, of the service records •of officers who had superseded those whose appeals were before the board.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 comparison being made. The chairman ruled that as the records 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 evidence might apply. The district traffic manager was then called, and gave a general statement of the records. ' The advocate for the appellants asked tho board to indicate its opinion upon certain of the existing regulations in order that he might know whether the onus was upon the appellant or tfip respondent in disproving or proving, as the cast might he, that the superseding officers had been rightIv preferred to the present appellants. * The board indicated that it was not prepared, at the present stage, to rule upon fbp point in question.