A UNION'S LEVY
DECLARED TO BE INVALID. SUPREME COURT FI^DIXG. Judgment was given :n the Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Justice Hosi king in the appeal against the decision lof the Magistrate's Court in the case brought by the Plumbere' and Gasfitters , Union against O. Corin. This was an appeal from a determination of the Magistrate's Court that a levy of 10/ per member, assumed t<3 T>e struck at a special meeting of the appetfant union, i was void. The ground or tae decision I'n-as that the meeting Had no .power to make the levy, because the notice convening the meeting stated that the sum proposed to be levied was 3/, and not 10/, and rule 7 of the union's rales prevented the meeting from levyins more than 5,'. His Honor, after quo'tins at length various authorities bearing on" the case, gave it as his opinion that a proper : construction of the. rule prohibited a levy beyond the limit of that proposed by tne notice of the meeting, and that the J levy of 10/ made in this case was invalid.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 6
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