PREFERENCE CLAUSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 14

PREFERENCE CLAUSE

APPEAL COURT VIEW RESTRICTION OF AWARD (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The Appeal Court yesterday delivered judgment in the case, Seamen's Union v. Sanforcl, Ltd. The effect of the judgment is that only sub-clause (e) of clause 24 of the recommendations of the* Conciliation Council was within the jurisdiction of the Arbitration Court and could lie included in its award. In his judgment the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, held that sub-clause (f) could not be 'justified, because the entrance fee was in excess of the entrance fee permitted to be charged by the Arbitration Act ■ further that the other sub-clauses except sub-clause (e) stood and fell together. lie regarded that they had already been concluded by the decisions of the court in previous, cases, and that there was no power in the Court of Arbitration to give preference to members of the union over other members of the same union.

The other judges of the court concurred with judgment, of the Chief Justice, Judges Blair and Smith writing judgments to that effect. There, was no order as to costs.