SPORTS OR. RACE-MEETING?
« TIMABU SPORTS MANAGERS PKOSECUIVID. IDy TcleEraph-I'ress Association.! Timaru, March 21. The farmers nrouiul Beaconsiield Village have bonii accustomed for some yoQi'B to hold :i mixed sports meeting in a paddock on Boxing Hays, Hie snorts including some gallops and Irots for local horses, and the prizes being provided by sweepslakes. The races wero not advertised, but it had beeonio an understood thing that there would be horse races, and today two of the managers of the last sports we're prosecuted under the Act of 1909 for holding an illegal race meeting. Tor the defence it was contended that this was a sports meeting:, not a race meeting, and there was nothing more in tliu races than if men agreed to try their horses in reaching tome point across the paddock. , , Mr. Day, S.M., referred to the Little River case, and convicted defendants, but imposed no penalty beyond costs,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 22 March 1912, Page 4
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151SPORTS OR. RACE-MEETING? Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 22 March 1912, Page 4
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