LAW REPORTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 10, 6 October 1917, Page 12

LAW REPORTS

COURT OF APPEAL

AMALGAMATION OF UNIONS

QUESTION DEFERRED

. The Court pi' Appeal continued its fcseions in Wellington yesterday. The Chief Justice. (Sir Robert Stout) presided, aud with him on the bench were Mr. Justice Denniston, Mr. Justice Cooper, Mr. Justice Chapman, and Mr. Justice Hosking. A case was heard in which the appellants wore the Canterbury Slaughtermen's Union, thi> Christ church Exports Slaughtermen's Union, the Canterbury Farmers, Follmongers, and Skinners' Union, and the .'Canterbury Freezing .Works, Bacon, ■Soap, and Saueage-cnsing Workers' Union. The Registrar of Industrial Uaione was the respondent. It wag slated that on Angus! ]. 1017, a Chrislclinrcli Union secretory filpfl with tho Registrar of Unions nn application for the registration of tho appellant unions as nil amalgamated union, under tho title of the Canterbury Freezing Works and Eelated Trades Union. The Registrar, haying refused to register tho union as requested, an. appeal against his uction \ras lodged with the Court of Arbitration. Tho Judge of the Arbitration. Court thereupon stilted n case for the opinion of tho Court of Appeal. Sir John I'indlay, K.C.. and \[\: D. i\. Findlay, appeared lor tho appellants, and Mr. J. W. Salmond, K.C., Solicitor-Gen-eral, for the respondent. After tho Court had.hoard some argument, it was suggested Unit the inotler should be brought up by inrans of an originating summons, and the c;isn was accordingly adjourned, so that tho appellants might adopt gomo fresh meane of obtaining tho opinion of the Court. This decision was the result of the Solici-tor-General's contention that. Ihe casts had not conic before llio Court in tho proper way.