Newsam, J.

1. This is an application for a writ of certiorari directed to the Somavaram Co-operative Societies and the Deputy Registrar of Co-operative Societies. I am invited to quash the award of the Deputy Registrar to whom a dispute between petitioner (ex-president of the Society) and the Cooperative Society had been referred on the ground that the Deputy Registrar has no jurisdiction under Section 51 of the Cooperative Societies Act to decide such a dispute.

2. The facts are briefly as follows:--The petitioner as president of the Society had made loans to four persons, which were irrecoverable. Petitioner ceased to be President on 17th July, 1931. Over two years later (namely, on 25th November, 1933), the Co-operative Society resolved to refer the matter to the arbitration of the Registrar and claim No. 2 of 1934 was filed very early in 1934 against petitioner. For a year this claim was pending before the Deputy Registrar, being eventually decided only on 13th March, 1935, in a long judgment which dealt with the merits fully, from which it does not appear that any objection was ever taken by petitioner to the jurisdiction of the Deputy Registrar under Section 51. It is on t