INVERCARGILL APPEALS
'"J 'RAILWAY DEPARTMENT'S POSI "1 TION. By Telegraph—Press Association. (1 Invercargill, January 12. [»- Before tho Military Board to-day the 3 r Railway Department appealed in tin ii- caso of six employees—firemen am r . cleaners —on the ground that their serin vices were indispensable. fbc Tea flic in Manager said that fifty firemen hat o- voluntarily enlisted _ in this district -|i and there were eighteen vacancies ,n which lie could not fill. Captain Free said that if a pnvati
employer made a- similar appeal the Board would begin to question his loyalty. The Department would have to use the medically unfit. The Chairman said ho would not grant tho appeals. There must bo reorganisation, so that cligiblcs could bo released. Tho applications were ad- - journed for a month. >j -—. .. — n
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 10
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131INVERCARGILL APPEALS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 10
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