ARBITRATION COURT FINES.
CASE BEFORE APPEAL COURT. (Per Press Association.) -WELLINGTON, this day. The Appeal Court to-day is hearing the case of Reddie v. Millar, an appeal from Judge Williams' decision. Respondent, a slaughterman's ' assistant at Pareora freezing works, was fined £5 for taking part in a strike. A writ of attachment was moved for and refused by Judge Williams, on the ground that the mode of recovering the amount of the fine prescribed by. the Legislature was the mode prescribed for recovery of a debt and not of a pentlty, and consequently since the Imprisonment for Dept Abolition Act no one could be imprisoned for failure to pay a debt. Justice Cooper in a previous case had granted a writ of attachment,, find the Appeal Court has to decide which view is< correct. Mr Bell, K.C., and Mr J. L. Stout .appear for appellant, and Messrs Raymond and Herdtnan for respondent. ■■;.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 29 July 1907, Page 2
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