SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 14

SUPREME COURT.

i;@" "S :v(Tna f action? wiioh» Has- Ib'aettVcommenced'bj i"^B;v; : tliq"railway tffk'-iß'-K ?j'■'&"£*^Vappoiiitinents\';ofo ex-Manawatu:; Company : . em-!'--;iM:'::; toVthe; Government' senrice ;/;was.. men> SvH*?: tioned ; :t«£ofs?Mi^'Jiistice :Sim■yesterday. \' •' | S#£\£ > beard before v Mr, : ;-tVv>>:H-;JusticeAUooper •'• some/.time -:ago,', but. >"was.,ad-:i's-?:{\*;i^onrnßo?in'.order'.jthat'.the'' Manawatu'Company. ; : The VS;'•■(.:■ i proceedings weroinnder. the ;Manawatu ; Railway pOV>-S!PnjTsh>sa;;Acfe;l£K)B,.:and, the X Government 'KailAct,'ylTO,l : j^K-i^'Sapreme'Court bY-an-affidavit 'of .''Walter: John ';(**? fiii: Bhops; Jwho stated; -;'■ (1) iThat; he .-was employed £S',^.v';j;as : Zealand at the Petohe S; ; ?iC ; /* ; fWorfehops, '.and under Part: 2 ;;.vr'?v.;Jpf-the' < Goyernmeut;Eailways:!Act. 1908; (2) that ;W>,'H.:it;h^.';^ {!ii:^'i/;XfoF. : the Governor, i r *: : lV?;:;that :the:,vGi>vera6r: v pr6posed I .'to.>appoint, Us '**•&■■ -v^permanonfr-'officers in..the .Department/'persona >JjrtV>:-v;:who/ ( bh' December, .6, ; 1908,v>e're.'employed '.by £v»'-:'K:th^ ':jft''"'ii' ; ?pair/,iLtd;;\ ; andv.to''aj^p»uit..'-them-'at the same ;t'{i; ;;".,•'• rates 'of payVas.'sthey. respectively .'received from W&iW-'®* rcompany; •and^to'.plapevthem-vn''the',Vespec- ; W»V, ; ; : .; ; fcive .sub-classes and;.'grades:;constituted ..under. Iv'J?!' ■& ; P*rt»2 > of -thev Act, .1908, :^;Krf'-S their respecgc};^iJ'ti^';rates:;oi;vpayj.X3)::that>the: Minister for at -'the' same time that the ; ft'Si compelled/.by. Section. 27r- ; of'the "Railway '■) Purchase artSfcf;:!&ct;+l!p,';t to'do;all:the:actsi -mentioned : in - the SjK^last-paragraph advised that the SM-Vi;';' ; !iGpyenior^as.;ii6t^so;compelled;.and: (5)" that' ": : V;.':y' : l proposed; appointments.was the ap;''V;r;i V v.pointmehtXol' l a: i p'ereoh, the effect of'which; -and ; would ?%&.'. ..Vbe.to postpone and:prevent the promotion which, ;?i'#tf£iiiV:tli9; ordinary ;fc6inse,': Taylor, would bo. en'■■sf'M- aJo: v;. He.; s was," .' interested,' 'in ■ 5.:. : '5~-^ &j.-v'.'S«;tibh';'of from the Court. : :|y»':-?rS: Mr - ; 'behalf of the railwav men. li*-r(<-':: £ffiiS^M:'amriged.. : ;;: r in ?#V - : •:. wtpT ß -iWf- >■ Justice Cobpe'rj.vahd. remarked-; that : p'K-:* th o;;C&se'^reht,posabiy:/cpm -'"A'rf^-^J-lw.: holicitor-General. lappears . b£'>behiilf 'of' ji^l'/j'the,^Ciown,,i.':^; ; ;;>;;:,': : , ; ; l i : ; 4 i;^'j..vV-T&V-"-'-'''*te''•'■"&