RAILWAYMEN AND LIQUOR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 209, 13 December 1910, Page 5

RAILWAYMEN AND LIQUOR

SHOULD PROHIBITED MEN BE EMPLOYED? By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. During this afternoon's sitting of the South Island Railway Appeal Board there was a brief discussion regarding the effect of the issue of a prohibition order in consideration of a railwayman's efficiency. The representative for the Department stated that the usual practice of the Department was to regard as unfit to be retained in the service any man against whom a prohibition order had been issued, but the representative of the appellant (Mr. R. Hampton) replied that under certain circumstances a prohibition order might be no evidence of intemperate hibits. The suggestion was made by the chairman of the Board, Mr. W. R. Haselden, that it would be in the interests of trainmen if a prohibition order was issued against every individual member of the service, and Mr. Hampton replied that he believed such a practice had been adopted in several of the railway services of America. The chairman added that while he was not prepared to agree that the issue of a prohibition order was sufficient reason for dispensing with the services of the subject of an order, lie did think that a conviction for a breach of that order was sufficient.