GREYHOUND RACING
PROPOSAL FOR WEMBLEY By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyriyh* LONDON, Wednesday. The hugh success of greyhound racing in London and in the provinces has resulted in a plan to make Wembley the world’s greatest centre of that sport. A company has been formed under the leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel-Charles Darley Miller, manager director of the Roehampton Club. The capital is £250,000, the subscription of which is to be offered to the public on August 29. The company has bought the Stadium aad the surrounding land at
j Wembley for £150,000 from the present ! owner, Mr. Londer Elvin, who bought ; it from the liquidators of the Beecham i Trust, Ltd., for £120,000. | It is proposed to commence greyhound racing before December.—A, j and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 1
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