Mr Robert P. Scripps, the wellknown American newspaper proprietor, writing in the JOaily News, says. “ I have heard a good deal about the unemployment and thej hard times in England. It puzz’ies me. Last night I went to the dog races, and there was a crowd of TjOO.OOO thci'C. Why, if we got a crowd of that size in New York it would be a frotit page story. You may be losing chaimpionships, but there Is no doubt tha t the English go in mprq for sport that 1 we do. We are more serious-mind 1et h And I hear that you get enonnoV 18 crowds at your f ootbf ill matches, too, held on the samei day
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5203, 14 November 1927, Page 1
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118Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5203, 14 November 1927, Page 1
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