ADDINGTON WORKSHOPS INQUIRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 129, 8 February 1909, Page 2

ADDINGTON WORKSHOPS INQUIRY.

On Thursday last the head office of the A malgamated Society of Railway Servants received the following tpleV gram from the Minister for Railways: "In rep;y to your telegram regarding the oraer of reierence in connection with the proposed Addington inquiry, your representations will receive consideration. but the inquiry will not be widened out to go outside of the general administration in regard to the worirsnops. I see no necessity to have counsel or outside representatives ap« peanng the proposed Commission, which will consist of persons outside the railway service, cut h?-""ing practical knowledge of engineering, and who will, therefore, be well qualified to obtain all the evidence necessary. In these circumstances I regret that cannot agree to counsel being admitted, as neither the officers nor the men will be represented by any 0n.," This stat emeni, it has been suggested. puts out of court Mr I. E. Taylor, M.P., for example, because he would come within the' category of "outside representative-' for the tnepj and, moreover, has no greaj, pnicfjp§} knowledge of engineering.