AN INVALID LEVY

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9077, 23 June 1915, Page 8

AN INVALID LEVY

Prec.i Association.

AUCKLAND, June 22

Judgment was given in tho Supreme Court this morning by Mr Justice Hosking in the appeal against a decision of the Magistrate’s Court in a case brought by the Plumbers and Gasfitters’ Union against G. Corin. This was an appeal from a determination of the Magistrate’s Court that a levy of 10s per member, assumed to be struck at a special meeting of the appellant union, was void. The ground of the decision was that tho meeting had no power to make the levy, because the notice convening the meeting stated that the sum proposed to be levied was 5s and nod 10s, and rule 7 of the union prevented the meeting from levying more than ss. His Honour, after quoting at length various authorities bearing on the case, gave it as his opinion that a proper construction of the rule prohibited a levy beyond the limit of that proposed by tho notice of the meeting, and that the levy of 10s made in this case was invalid.