GOLF CLUB DISPUTE
JUDGMENT FOR WOMEN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 1. Judgment for plaintiff was delivered by His Honour Mr Justice Herdman jn the action in which four women members of the Pupuke Golf Club alleged that their suspension from membership by the committee was ultra vires and void. The main point at issue was whether the by-law prohibiting women members from play before 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoons could be enforced. Defendants said that the by-law was made to preserve the greens and allow men members to conduct competitions without congestion or interference. His Honour said that whatever may have been the main purpose of the committee there was no doubt that incidentally the by-law restricted the playing rights of a section of the club’s membership. Later His Honour said that the committee’s real object seemed to have been to give men players special facilities on Saturdays. He decided that the club’s rules did not go to the length of enabling the committee to make a by-law’ which benefitted one section of members only and restricted the playing rights of another section,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 7
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