ENDURANCE SKATING.
A LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR'S VLEWS. An opponent of endurance skating competitions rose up in the Legislative Council yesterday in the person of the Hon. Captain Baillie, who drew tho attention of the Attorney-General to a report |on one of > those tests which had appeared in the morning panor. Tuo report stated that two men had set out to break the endurance record by skating for more-than 51J hours. One of the men belonged to one of His Majesty's warships, and ho wanted to know if there were no regulations to stop theso inhumano and msane exhibition's, which were becoming all too common. ' . The Attorney-General, in replying, remarked that the old Puritan objection to bear-baiting was not so much that it gave pain'to, the bear, as. that it gave pleasure to the spectators. If these exhibitions only gave pain to. the exhibitor, said Dr. Fmdlay, ho did not feel inclined to mako any endeavour to protect the performer from himself. ; If tho point ra.sed was that such ex-.' hibitious were demoralising, that raised another question. Ho did not know whether the lion, gentleman was concerned about tho bodily comfort of fool porformers or tho interests of morality. Tho matter than dropped.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 4
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201ENDURANCE SKATING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 4
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