A QUESTIONABLE PRACTICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 82, 5 March 1884, Page 3

A QUESTION ABLE PRACTICE.

MOflj&U mill' HO •- .'-'. - ■ . i.i •;!■.. ; A rather un*ertti>at<|;accident occurred ; .tMtt^^Oji^ifl -iJ«tear <%?*>. mating ty 1 vicwfofthe gentleflMin who baa for a lonfe - time »ast officiated^ judge. It took »W«r :i fe Oip' *ade,*hett Mr H. JDriver (tho-jadg4r)t»'oli«Wg that there was , fcsib6fl*td«t%kl» d«Jay iin rtarting the afield, ii'Mift ib«f»geß to;M them go a« sop^ aa j «»Msible. ,, X^Jli underrtood that Mr Dod» ■■! ■.•Mh^the^Btarter) replied that he bad beeb JSSSWI t* .ihe BtewaVds not to aend ~^m awky unUl the totalisators had had : m tl3Ema l & taking more money, and that oml %i'>iH^Rt6d '■* signal from ons of the J4t'»warts, Such' a signal is said to have ;-'bien Riven by JVljr Fleming. Mr Driver .i^bireqpon coptend^d that when once the o Jhoesei- mere oufc they- were under the ,cori« iraf'«fJS»tff. and the starter only, arid. IS PO^Seraiice J oh the part of tbe : . * B JEfife #as jiistiifiabi*. He consequently ihen and there resigned faia office, and m this strait Mr L. Maclean was appointed tb'ifcfc' as judgai during the .teinainder of' .£ iTO I:-.':';:.:!," I ,'■' P t.TTTT^*S>- • j^ ; ! '