INJUNCTION ORDER
JONES’S BOXING LICENCE RESTORATION DIRECTED P.A. WELLINGTON, Mar. 20. An interim injunction order 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. It 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 plaintiff had suffered damage (a) to his reputation as a professional boxer and (b) by being ineligible under the rules of the New 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 have it dissolved. Jones has received written notice to attend a New Zealand Boxing Council inquiry to-morrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26416, 21 March 1947, Page 6
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203INJUNCTION ORDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 26416, 21 March 1947, Page 6
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