POLICE STOP BOXING
NEGLECT TO OBTAIN PERMIT TOURNEY ENDS SUDDENLY Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. An amateur boxing tournament in Christchurch tonight came to an untimely end when the police arrived and refused to allow it to continue. The body controlling the tournament, fbe Christchurch Amateur Boxing and Sports Club, which is affiliated with the New Zealand Boxing Association, had not observed the necessary formality of obtaining a permit. Early in the evening th» secretary, Mr. H. R. Sampson, remembered that he had not obtained a permit and telephoned to Superintendent Eales. The superintendent would not give permission off hand at the last moment, and while the'tournament was in progress Sergeant Almond and a squad of police arrived, ordered that the boxing should cease and took the names of the persons concerned in controlling the tournament.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 663, 15 May 1929, Page 16
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135POLICE STOP BOXING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 663, 15 May 1929, Page 16
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