IMPORTANT RULING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 May 1923, Page 7

IMPORTANT RULING

4 . ABILITY OR SENIORITY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION'—COPYRIGHT WELLINGTON, May 22. . An important decision was given by the Chief Justice to-day in an originating summons brought'before him last week with the object of securing a decision as to whether certain regulations under the Government Railways Act 1908, were ultra vires. The decision mainly affected the issue as to whether j promotion in the railway service was j to be based primarily on seniority or •' whether ability and suitability were to | be allowed ..to discount seniority His Honor held that the regulations were ' good in la.w, and pointed out that there I was no more reason for seniority ruling ' in the service than there was for it ruling in other occupations.