A JOCKEY’S UNION FEES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 182, 29 April 1922, Page 8

A JOCKEY’S UNION FEES

DISCUSSED IN SUPREME COURT by tbliobayii—pbzss absociation., Auckland, April 28. An appeal by the New Zealand Jockeys’ Association against (a decision of Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., in its claim against George Young, jockey, for £4l membership fees, was heard by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court. It was stated that the Magistrate dismissed the claim on the grounds that as defendant was a minor, the only contracts enforceable against him were for necessaries, and membership of the plaintiff association was not necessary to him. Counsel for respondent said the rple providing for the payment of 5 per cent, on riding fees was a penalty, because the more successful a jockey was the worse off he was financially. His Honour asked what the obligations of the association were. Counsel replied there were none. There were only a. number of pious objects which, if achieved, would result in a kind of utopia. . Counsel for the association said the objects must be road as a contract, and members had a legal remedy m case of no attempt being made to carry them out. He denied that the scale of contribution was a penalty, saying a jockey contributed according to his earnings. - . . His Honour (smiling): 1 hat is not taking into cons’deratwn what he „ from bookmpkerfl. Judgment was regrrvrd.