On March 24, the Corporation Committee of tho Wolverhampton Fre.e Library mot to debate? tho question of sporting intelligence supplied by the newspapers on the Public Library stands. A certain section of the Committee advocated the suppression of all such news on the ground of a great increase of betting among the mephaniy and operative classes and the interference with readers of other news. After much discussion the committee resolved to imitate the action of Preston and Ashton, •tnd black all sporting information entering tho reading room. A Wolverhampton correspondent telegraphs :—Consternation was caused this morning amongst the class of loafers and amateur betting men in the habit of frequenting the Wolverhampton Free Library newsroom on finding, by order of the committee, tl>e whole of the sporting intelligence in the daily newsmi evs on the stauda, from The Times 'owivvard.s, bad been blackened oijt. Tin result is a great improvement in tho oinf JL't afforded to the general readers unci bum Jide working iueu desirous of
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2370, 16 June 1892, Page 3
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166Untitled Temuka Leader, Issue 2370, 16 June 1892, Page 3
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