Loco. Representatives Secure an Injunction.
QUESTION OF ELEGIBILITY. MUST BE DETERMINED BY CONSTITUTIONAL METHOD WELLINGTON, Lust Night. The Chief Justice (Hon. M. Myers’, delivered his reserved judgment to-daj lu the action of Messrs Carroll (Anckland), Mack (Taihape), Pennell (Wcl*. ling ton) and Puliar (Dunedin) whomoved for a perpetual injunction restraining the Locomotive Engineers, Firemen and Cleaners Association, its president, Mr Lewin and the general secretary, from proceeding with thecalling for nominations for election to till the places of plaintiffs on the executive council.
His Honour hold it was not constitutional for Lowin to decide arbitrarily whether Carroll was ineligible, or that, the others had- forfeited their seatsThe injunction was made perpetual. That, remarked his Honour, did not mean Carroll was to remain a member of the council during the whole of the remainder of his term but simply that if his eligibility was disputed, a proper and constitutional method must bo adopted to have the question determined.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1929, Page 6
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