FLOWERS V. WHARF LABOURERS' UNION.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 6

FLOWERS V. WHARF LABOURERS' UNION.

Wellington, March 10. Judgment was reserved in. the F-xi-preme Court case heard before. Mr. Justice Cooper, in which lames Flowers, a coloured wharf labourer, applying for a mandamus to enrol him as a member of tho Wharf Labourers' Union, and damages amounting to £175 for loss alleged to have (:otn suffered by him'through the union's refusal to enrol him.

His Honour said the case was a tcry important one. He thought it pa's better that he should giro his fudg-* ment in writing, more particular] v as he wanted to road the correspondence. Ho would give, judgment next Tuesday week. During tho course of the argument His Honour observed that 'i the case were decided in plaintiff's '"avojr the action would bo one for reasonable damages, not the -pxconru-o daini'Hr claimed by plaintiff. An unskilled worker could not remain idle for fix months and then claim damages to the extent of tins wages he might litve earned had he been at work all the