JUDGE ALLOWS APPEAL

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 November 1933, Page 5

JUDGE ALLOWS APPEAL

WELLINGTON CHAIN STORES nEGISTRA.TJO:Sf AS UNION (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. The appeal from the refusal of the registrar of industrial unions to register the Wellington Chain Grocery Stores Society as an industrial union of, employers, heard in the Arbitration Court last month, is allowed in a judgment delivered by Mr Justice Frazer. The court was asked to' make inquiry whether the registrar’s refusal should be insisted on or waived and the appeal was on the grounds that owing to the diversity of interests it would be more convenient for members to register separately than to join the Wellington Master Grocers ’ Industrial Union.

Tlie employers’ appeal was opposed bv the Master Grocers’ Union on the grounds that multilic'ity of unions was undesirable and that the proprietors of chain grocery stores could conveniently become members of the existing union and that no sufficient diversity of interests existed to' justify registration of another union of master grocers in the district over and above the other reasons given. Mir Justice Frazer said it was futile to withhold registration from an appellant society when by making use of other provisions of the Act it could inti irectiv attain .its object.