GENERAL BOOTH’S DISMISSAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL BOOTH’S DISMISSAL.

CHANCERY COURT APPEAL.

GROUNDS OF APPEAL OUTLINED

(By Telegraph-Press Assn. -Copyright.) /Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 18.

Mr Greene, K.C., representing General Booth, said the first ground of application to- the Chancery- Court for for an injunction against the decision of the High Council was the deed poll of 1904 was ultra vu;es because the trustee of a charitable'trust could not miter a trust at will as the deed poll provided. The second grbund wgs that the High Council's procedure violated the deed- poll and was contrary to natural justice seeing that it had not ■stated the grouijds upon, 'which the General was supposed to be unfit and had not permitted him to be present or be legally represented. The provisions for the removal of the Commander contemplated that he knew the charges against him. Mr Greene read the medical report of the officials and the affidavit by the General stating -“I shall under God's will return to my psst. I had been considering the need cf constitutional reforms when taken'Hl. While no doubt the Council has acted from the highest motives it seems to mo strange that they coukl cot give me time to recover."