A PORTER’S COMPLAINT.
OLD MAN OVERWORKED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WI?r.T.T\'P.TnM SpmpmWr 14
If the statements contained in a petition presented to Parliament bj Thomas M'Gahan,. of Tuakau, who was a tablet porter at Whangarata, and who was suspended in consequence of the derailment of a special train there on September 23 last year, are accurate they are a serious indictment of the Railway Department. The petition, which was presented by Mr Poland, set out that while-M'Ga'ian was guilty of default there were circumstances of an extenuating nature. The petitioner, who is 55 years of age, says he had been in bad health for some time, and desired to be retired as medically unfit. Instead of the tasks imposed on him and the hours ho had to work being diminished they were increased. The petitioner was suspended for three months, and was • actually unemployed for five months and was then put at laborious surface work, for which he was not fitted. He prays for arrears of pay of which he was deprived by his suspension.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2949, 21 September 1910, Page 12
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175A PORTER’S COMPLAINT. Otago Witness, Issue 2949, 21 September 1910, Page 12
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