PREVENTION OF PRIZE-FIGHTS.
Received October 3, 1.10 a.m. SYDNEY, October 2. The Premier, replying to a deputation from the Churches, asking him to do something to prevent prizefights, said'that the law countenanced boxing. It was imposstble to obtain evidence that a contest was a prizefight till it had begun. The Government were not in sympathy with anything that degraded the community, but in endeavouring to stop an occasional abuse of legitimate practice, they might be penalising a legitimate pastime. It would be unwise to introduce legislation, • but the Government would see that the' law was not abused. He informed a member of the deputation that he did not •think the Burns-Squires fight was a prize-fight.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3008, 3 October 1908, Page 5
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115PREVENTION OF PRIZE-FIGHTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3008, 3 October 1908, Page 5
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