A UNION LEVY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144713, 23 June 1915, Page 4

A UNION LEVY.

IMPOSED CONTRARY Tu T.AW. PER PRESS , ASSOCIATION. . AUCKLAND, June 22. Judgment wf.s given in the Supreme Court tins morning by Mr. Justice Hosking in tho appeal against tho, decision of tho Magistrate’s Court in tho case brought by tho Plumbers and Gasfitters’ Union against G. Conn. 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 thSrappellant union, was void. The ground of the decision was that the meeting had no power to make the levy, .qecause the notice convening the mooting stated that tlinisum proposed to bo levied was 5s and not 10s, - and rule 7 of the union’s rules prevented the meeting from-levying more than 6s. His Honour, after quoting at length various authorities hearing on tho case, gave it as his opinion that a proper construction of the rule prohibited a levy "beyond the limit of that proposed by tße notice of the meeting, and that the levy of 10s made in this ease was invalid. ■