A Test Case
[Per Press Association. —Copyright.! WELLINGTON. This Day. In a test action brought by the Dairy Factories Workers' Union for the recovery of an annual subscription from a member until the national executive fixed the amount of the subscription—the subscription claimed being the amount payable under the rules of the defunct district union—Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., found against the union. The magistrate said it would have been competent for the Wellington District Union, prior to its dissolution, to have transferred its property, including rights of action against members for dues in arrear, to trustees in trust for the national union, but unless it did so the national union had no legal right to recover any money which were owing to the dissolved district union, nor could the plaintiff union maintain an action for the recovery of any annual subscriptions from any of its members until the National Executive Council fixed the amount of subscription in accordance with the rule.
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Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 11
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162A Test Case Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 11
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