BOWLER'S EXPULSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 60, 10 February 1925, Page 6

BOWLER'S EXPULSION.

SUPREME COURT ACTION FOLLOWS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 10. Whether the Wellington Bowling Club was justified in expelling from membership one of its members, as a result of certain incidents which occurred on the green on 18th March last, is the main question involved in a Supreme Court case which opened to-day before His Honour Mr Justice Ostler. Tho plaintiff is Mr J. D. Sievwright and he is asking for £25 nominal damages, and that his expulsion from the club be declared null and void. On the 18th March plaintiff found that hi 3 flnnnol trousers had been mutilated. He approached Mr J. Hymans, a member of the selection committee, and suggested that, the match committee, perhaps, was to blame. Mr Hymans resented this and a scuffle took place, in which Mr Hymans declared he was struck by plaintiff. This plaintiff denies. Mr Hymans reported the matter to the directors, who heard evidejico, Mr Sievwright refusing to attend tho inquiry. The result was that Mr Sievwright was expelled. Plaintiff submits that he had been guilty of no action justifying his expulsion "and claims that the club, which is a limited liability company, could not authorise the forfeiture of his shares, the articles of the association being ultra vires and void. The case is creating some interest.