ON OWN INITIATIVE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 14

ON OWN INITIATIVE

MEMBER'S RESIGNATION RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD VIEWS OF INSTITUTE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The resignation of Mr. J. S. Roscoc from the Government Railways Appeal Board as the representative of Division I "of the railway service, was considered at a meeting of the executive committee of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute on Monday evening. "The committee was not consulted by Mr. Roscoe before his resignation. This action was taken entirely on his own initiative," says a statemenl issued yesterday. "Mr. Roscoe is no', responsible to the controlling body of the institute for any action he may take as the Division I elective representative on the appeal board. The executive committee is not aware o; the full reasons which prompted Mr. Roscoe to make some of the statements contained in his letter of resignation. "It is concerned; however, that serious dissatisfactidn exists throughout the officered section of the railway service and that the dissatisfaction is mainly due to a deep-rooted feeling that the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, : and the general management are not displaying a reasonably sympathetic attitude toward the representations made by the institute concerning matters affecting members of the service. The committee considers that no good purpose would be served at this stage by giving publicity in detail to such matters. It proposes to request the Minister of Railways to convene an early conference of interested parties. If this course is followed, the executive committee is of the opinion that many of the matters now disturbing jthe minds of railway officers can be I amicably solved."