NEGRO BOXER’S LICENCE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25139, 21 March 1947, Page 6

NEGRO BOXER’S LICENCE

COURT ORDERS RESTORATION

(P.A) WELLINGTON, March 20. An interim injunction was sought and obtained on behalf of the negro boxer, Willie Jones, by Mr L. H. Herd, in the Wellington Supreme Court late this afternoon. The effect of the injunction is to order the New Zealand Boxing Council to restore Jones’s licence, and also to restrain members of the council from acting further on the purported suspension of the licence. The injunction was granted by Mr Justice Christie, who presided over a similar application concerning Bos Murphy on Wednesday. The statement of claim was the same as that presented on Murphy’s behalf, .alleging, inter alia, that it was unlawful for the defendants to suspend or purport to suspend the plaintiff’s licence.’ By reason of this suspension the planftiff had suffered damage (a) to his reputation as a professional boxer, and (b) by being ineligible under the rules oij the New Zealand Boxing Association for employment as a professional boxer by any of its members. The order remains in force until the defendants make application to the Court, if they consider such action necessary, for a hearing to have it dissolved. Jones has received written notice to attend the New Zealand Boxing Council inquiry to-morrow.