SPORTS AND POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 125, 17 November 1911, Page 5

SPORTS AND POLITICS.

AN EMPHATIC PROTEST. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. A meeting of the Board of Control of the New Zealand Sports' Protection League was held this morning. There were present Mr. H. D. Bell, K.C. (chairman), the. Hon. Dr. Collins, M.D., MjL.C, Mr. Coates, general manager of the Nati«ial Bank, and Mr. John Duncan , (Bannantyne and Co.). The business of the meeting was to consider what attitude should be taken in connection with the meeting of the Parnell branch of the League held last evening, when it waß resolved to support Mr. Dickson in preference to Sir John Fmdlay for the Parnell seat. After mature consideration it was resolved that "the Board of Control of the New Zealand Sports Protection League emphatically disapproved of the resolution of the Parnell branch. No member of the League is under any obligation to make the League's objects his first consideration at the election. Mr. Armstrong is n&t an official of the board and has no authority to speak or act on behalf of the League. So far as the board is aware neither Sir John Findlay nor Mr. Dickson is opposed to the objects to promote which the League was formed." At a meeting in Parnell Mr. Armstrong, the League's organiser, urged that every sportsman who had the interests of sport protection at heart should make it a personal fight.