RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 134, 2 March 1921, Page 5

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD

PRODUCTION OF SERVICE RECORDS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. 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the production at to-day’s sitting of the North Island Railway Appeal Board ’of the service records of officers who had superseded those whose appeals were before the, iboard. The hearing of the case in question had been adjourned for the production of these documents, which the advocate for tho appellants had declared was necessary to allow of a comparison being made. The chairman ruled that as Ute 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 dab to which evidence might apply. The district traffic manager was then called am? gave a general statement of records. The advocate for the appellants asked the board to indicate its opinion upon certain of the existing regulations, in order that' he might know whether the onus was upon appellant or respondent in disproving or proving, as the case nught be, that tire superseding officers hdtlrtreen rightly preferred to the present appellants. The board indicated that it was not prepared at the present stage to rule upon the point in question.