COUNCIL AMENITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 6

COUNCIL AMENITIES.

OHAKUNE SENSATION.

WRIT OF INJUNCTION ISSUED.

Press 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 Ohakune Borough Borough Council, applied for a writ of injunction restraining the Mayor and other members of the Ohakune Council from preventing plaintiff attending the meeting of the Council to-day or any other meetings and exercising his Jawful rights as a Councillor. After holding that the Court had jurisdiction to interfere by injunction if the circumstances of the case warranted it, his Honor held that the action of the plaintiff brought him under the Council’s by-law relating to disorder, and that the Mayor and Council having found that he was disorderly, the Court could not interfere with the finding; He held, however, that neither the Mayor nor the Borough Council had' power to expel or suspend a member. They had only a pow T er to impose a penalty, being unHer part 2 of the by-laws and in section 349 of the Statute, which agreed. He also held that a resolution of suspension was clearly illegal and granted an injunction with costs, five guineas.