LEVY ON UNIONISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1915, Page 6

LEVY ON UNIONISTS.

AX INVALID ACTION. | Auckland, June 22. i Judgment 'W®s given in the Supreme Court to-day -by Mr. Justice Hosking in ' the appeal against the decision of the : ■Magistrate's Court in the case brought I by the 'Plumbers -and Gas-fitters' Uraon | against G. Corin.. This was an appeal from a determination of the Magistrate's Court that a levy of 10s per mcmiber, assumed to be struck at a special meeting of the appellant union, was void. The ground of the decision was that the meeting had no power to make the levy, because tlie nofice convening t'lie meeting stated that the sum proposed to "be levied was 5s and not 10s, and rule 7 of the Union's Tides prevented the meeting from, levying more tban ss. His Honor, after quoting at length various authorities bearing on the case, gave it as bis opinion that a proper construction of the Tide prohibited a levy beyond the limit of that proposed by the notice, of the. meeting, and that the levy of 10s made in this case was invalid.