PRIZE FIGHTS.
THEIR PREVENTION URGED
THE BUKNS-SQUIRES CONTEST
United Press Association. Covyuiciht (Received October 3, 1.10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, October 2. The Premier, replying to a. deputation from tho churches asking him to do something to prevent prize O lights, said that the law countenances ♦ boxing, and it was impossible to obtain evidence that- a contest was a prizo fight tili it had begun. The Government was oioti f n sympathy with anything that degraded -he community, hut in endeavoring to stop 'occasional abuses of a legitimate practice it might bo penalising a legitimate pastime. It would bo'unwise to introduce .legislation, but the Government would see that tho law was not abused. The Premier informed a member of the deputation that he did not think the Burns-Squires fight was a prize fight. ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2312, 3 October 1908, Page 3
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131PRIZE FIGHTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2312, 3 October 1908, Page 3
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