SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 17, 15 October 1917, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

REGISTRATION OF UNION RULES

AN IMPORTANT DECISION, His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman on Saturday morning his reserved judgment upon an originating summons brought by the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries Employees' Industrial Union or Workers against tho Registrar of Industrial Unions. , . Tho plaintiff union was that which ifj usually known as tho Waihi Miners Union. It 60ught to register a. complete amendment o£ its rules, including two lengthy rules, eighteon and nineteen, providing for tho payment of benofita to raembnrs who woro injured by accident, or to the relatives of members who were killed by accident. . Tho Registrar refused to accept tho rules named, on thn grounds that they were ultra vires to tho Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, J!H)S, and the plaintiff union proceeded by originating summons to obtain the ruling of the Supremo Court. The matter was argued before Mr. ,Tnstico Chapman by Mr. P. S. Iv. Macussey (for the Registrar of Industrial Unions) and Mr. P. J. O'Regan (for tho plaintiff union). His Honour decided in favour of tho Registrar, 6tating that in tho absence of express provision in the Aot, the proposed rules must be considered to bo beyond the 6cope of the Statute. FORGERY. AND UTTERING. A half-caste Maori youth, .Georgo AVintorburn, on Saturday camo beforo the Chief Justico (Sir Robert Stout) for sentence on two charges of forging and littering at Otaki. Mr. J; .T. JrGratli, who appeared for the prisoner, asked His Honour to grant probation, and permit Winterburn to go on a farm. His Honour acceded to tho request, and said that the prisoner must remain for two years oil his sister's farm near Marton. During the. two years he must not smoko cigarettes, visit any hotel, or drink iutoiicating liquor.