MULLEY CASE IN SYDNEY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28869, 14 April 1959, Page 4

MULLEY CASE IN SYDNEY

V.R.C. Document I Sought (N.Z Press Association —Convrtooti < SYDNEY, April 13. The Sydney jockey. Athol George Mulley. today asked the < High Court to order the Victorian Racing Club to produce commit- ■ tee documents. His application to ‘ the Court was made jointly with a • Queensland bookmaker. Thomas Marney. ! The committee documents relate to a decision made by the V R.C. committee on September 5 last year excluding Mulley and from Flemington racecourse. A High Court action by Mulley and Marney seeking to declare the V RC. decision “invalid, null and void” on the ground that it was a denial of natural justice is listed for hearing in Melbourne next? month. / In his statement of claim to the; High Court. Mulley said thei V.R.C. was depriving him of his I livelihood as a jockey. This was because the Australian! Rules of Racing said that anyonej who had been “warned off" by al principal club should not be ad-; mitted to the courses of other! clubs and could not take part in the training or racing of horses. Mr Justice Menzies was asked I today to decide various orelimin-' ary legal issues bearing on an action pending by Mulley and Marney against the V R.C. On these issues the Judge reserved judgment. Fanners Own Lard.—Seventyone per cent, of Thai farmer* now own the land they cultivate. the Minister of Co-opera-tives. Mr Prakas Sahakorn, told reporters. Credit co-operatives had been largely responsible for bringing this about, he said.— Reuter.