BOXER JONES GAINS INJUNCTION AGAINST DISQUALIFICATION

Grey River Argus, 21 March 1947, Page 3

BOXER JONES GAINS INJUNCTION AGAINST DISQUALIFICATION

P.A. WELLINGTON, March 20. An interim injunction order v/as sought and obtained on behalf of the negro boxer, Willie Jones, by Mr L. H. Herd, in the Wellington Supreme Court, late this afttrnoon. The effect of the injunction is to order the New Zealand Boxing Council to restore Jones’s licence, and also to retrain the members of the council from acting further on the purport ed suspension of the licence. It was granted by Justice Christie, who presided over the 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 defendants to suspend or purport to suspend the plaintiff’s licence by reason of this suspension. Plaintiff had suffered damage (a) to his reputation as a professional boxer and (b) by being ineligible under the rules' of the New Zealand Boxing Association for employment as a professional boxer by any of its members.

The order remains in force till the defendants make application, if they consider such action necessary, for a hearing to the Court to have it dissolved.

Jones has received written notice to attend a New Zealand Boxing Council inquiry to-morrow.