RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6, 4 May 1912, Page 5

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

HEARING OF CASES. (Per Press Association.) Palmerston, May 3. The North Island Railway Appeal Board sat at Palmerston to-day. Dr. McArthur presiding. Mr. C. P. Ryan represented the first division, and Mr. P. Games the second division. Dir. Mouat appeared for the Department. Charles Murphy appealed against h : s dismissal for alleged insubordination. Murphy was told by the coaching foreman to put a box on the Foxton train. He refused, because the box was not properly labelled ’or excessed, which was contrary to the stationmaster’s instruction. The coaching foreman considered the box properly labelled. Murphy denied the correctness of the evidence signed by him at the departmental enquiry. The chairman said that Murphy must have been a lunatic to sign anything without reading it first. Judgment was reserved till to-morrow.

Walter Short appealed against his disnrssal. He went from Wellington to Shannon, on transfer. When asked by the foreman to sign on he refused to do as requested. It was alleged that he was under the influence of drink, and was cheeky to the goods agent. Decision was reserved.

Robert Lee appealed against the reduction of his salary. Appellant is a signalman, and was reduced for going to sleep while on duty in the signal box at Palmerston. The appeal was dismissed without calling on the Department.