"SUSPENDED."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11028, 17 March 1914, Page 1

"SUSPENDED."

BOROUGH COUNCIL CASE. ACTION ILLEGAL. [Psr Pbess Association.] ; . WELLINGTON, March 17. Judgment was delivered by the Chief Justice this morning in the case in which Alexander Herbert Wilkie, a member of the Ohakuue Borough Council. applied for a writ of injunction restraining the Mayor and other members of tho Ohakuue Council from preventing the plaintiff attending, the meetings of the Council and exorcising his lawful rights a a a councillor. After holding that the Court bad .jurisdiction to interfere by an injunction if tho circumstances of the case warranted it. his Honor held that tho action of the plaintiff brought him under the Council's by-law., relating to disorder, and 1:1 m t the. Mayor and Council, having found that he was disorderly. the Court could not interfere with the finding. He held, however, I hat neither the .Mayor nor the Borough Council bad the' power lo exile! or suspend a member, the only power to impose a penalty being given under pari •> of the bylaws. and in section .Mf) of the Statute, which agreed with Ihe by-law. He aU6 held Hint the resolution of suspension was clearly, illegal, and granted an injunction .with costs, five guineas.