MOTION FOR INJUNCTION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29179, 13 April 1960, Page 22

MOTION FOR INJUNCTION

Resumed Hearing Delayed (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 12. The hearing of a motion for an interim injunction restraining the use of trade union funds to pay costs and damages of a libel action last year, which was to have resumed in the Supreme Court today, has been adjourned because of illness of the plaintiff’s counsel. No other fixture has yet been made. The motion is in the name of the Wellington Fire Brigade Officers’ Union. The case was first heard on December 8 artd adjourned sine die to be brought on at seven days’ notice. Fintan Patrick Walsh, president of the Wellington Trades Council, Francis Leslie Fenton, vice-president, and Mrs Nan Clark, secretary, are named as first defendants. Kenneth McLean Baxter, secretary of the Federation of Labour, and James Harold Thompson, federation executive member, as trustees of the Trades Council funds, are named as second defendants. The motion arises out of an action in the Supreme Court in which Anthony Joseph Neary, secretary of the North Island Electrical Workers’ Union, was awarded £3500 damages against Walsh and seven other trade union leaders in respect of a report of the management committee of the Trades Council.