LABOUR UNION APPEAL CASE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 8

LABOUR UNION APPEAL CASE

SUPREME COURT DECISION. (IT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION .) AUCKLAND, 22nd June. Judgment was given in the Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Justice Hosking in an appeal against the decision of the Magistrate's Court in, the case brought by the Plumberß' and Gasfitters' Union 'against G. Corin. ( This was an appeal from a determination of the Magistrate's Court that a levy of 10s per member assumed to be struck at > a special < meeting of the appellant union was void. The ground of the decision was that the meeting had no povver to make tho levy because th© notice convening the meeting stated that the sum proposed to be levied was Ss, and not 10s; and Rule 7, of the, union's rules prevented the meeting from levying more than ss. His .Honour, after quoting at length the 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 the notice of the meeting, and that the levy of 10s made in this case was invalid.