BOS MURPHY ASKS FOR TRIBUNAL

Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1947, Page 3

BOS MURPHY ASKS FOR TRIBUNAL

- Press Association

By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, April 1. Wluitever the result of the present litigation, Bos JMurphy will not consent to be a partv to the inquiry of the New Zealaiul Boxing Council that now , stamls acljourned." This Was conveyed lo the council 's solicitors today by the solicitors for Murphv. ! Their letter continuetl that Mui'phy ! took this attitude ; because it appeared : to hini: the couhc.il could uot no\V be regarded as-free .of !bias. AYha(§y.er tlie result of the' litigation, however', Murphy was williilg' and proposed that there bfe: .sifbstrttited for the present inquiry an inquiry before some members of the legal • profession to be agreed upon between the council 's and his solicitors, on the foliowing basis: — "Proeeedings to be open to the public aud newspapers, the council or some representative to appear as a party and to present written and specific eharges against Murphy, 110 charges to be laid in relation to any remuneration reeeived by Murphy or any opponent of his from the Hutt Valley Boxing Association or as percentage 011 iilm or radio rights, Murphy to appear as defendant to the charges, the law of evideuce to apply as ou a trial on indietment, the tribunal to have power in its diseretion to impose any penaltv contemplated by tiie rules and power to fix costs, the whole of the costs of the proeeedings to be paid by the loser or, if the council preferred it, cach party to pay its own costs and liaif the costs of the tribunal itself. it is a further condition that the inquiry now proposed be set on foot forthwith. ' '