RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 14

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD.

MINISTER'S VETO RESENTED. CHRISTCHURCH, September 7. At a meeting of the Addington Workshops employees to-day the following resolution was carried unanimously :— " Seeing that the only direct means of redTess which railway men have to rely upon has bean, practically taken from them by the Minister vetoing the decision of the Appeal Board, this meeting deems it unwise to nominate or elect members to represent the Workshops Department on the said board, and until such time as Parliament hae had an opportunity of giving members of the service the full benefit it intended by the Classification Act by removing the clause which enables the Minister to nullify the judgment of the tribunal, which should be entirely free from departmental interferences." The meeting endorsed the action of .Mr J. H. Jones in resigning from the Appeal Board owing to tb« action of the Minister of Railways in Tetoja* . the decwon pf the board. It was : ako decided to conunanidat» with the loveereargill and Hillside Workshops employees. At & smalP pJade in Michigan on July 3 a lady who had ascended with her misband m a balloon was killed by electricity, and her body fell from the balloon to the ground in view of thousands of horrified spectators. In the ascent the- balloon became entangled in «ome overhead trolley wires, which the woman unfortunately graeped. ,