DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 28 April 1913, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

RAILWAY APPEAL BOARD. 1 [Per Press Association.] Dunedin,! April 25. The Railway Appeal, Board sat this morning to consider two appeals. The first case was—that of George Andrews, chiefi clerk at diainaru, wlto complained that a vacancy occurring in *tYir’^e'S?^r : cargill he was pasesd over in favour of a man three months his junior in the service. > r < e The next was that of one named' Gibson who had been passed over when appointments of ticket,inspectors were_ being made. He maintained, hp. was particuiarlv' qualified to fill such position. H.i: i The Board ~pnanimously decided to dismiss both ap } peals. (

TREE-PDA NTIN C 4 v FOR'- IN Y A LIDS. (Auckland, April 25. An interesting point in the evidence given before the Forestry Commission was a suggestion made by Dr Makgill regarding the suitability of tree-planting as work for convalescent consumptives. Dr. Makgill said that in 1908 a trial of the system had been made in a small way eight miles from Rotorua. A camp of 14 men carried on the work with reasonable success. Tree-planting was work suitable for consumpties, but the trial was given up in the middle of 1910, as the walk to and from planting became rather long for semi-invalids. Dr. Makgill added, that he thought it would be quite possible to establish a camp of 60 men in the Taupq district to undertake such work. It was very difficult to get consumptives in sanatoria to work, and it was in many cases better for the patient’s treatment to persuade him to work from the first. Dr. Makgill said tnat on any of the light pumice lands there was an opportunity of starting tieeplanting if .these districts themselves wanted it, and the conditions suited the patients.