BOXING CONTESTS
REQUEST fOfUEGISUTION PUGILISTS IN SYDNEY. (Received Last Nigli 1. 9.20 o'clock.) SYBNEY, December 4. A deputation from the Evangelical Council asked the Hon. Mr McGowen to se@iis l late again sit boxing cfcwte&ts, which, the deputation, declared, were jiiothing more or !ese than pxlijie lights. They argued that Sydney' was being made thei dumping ground of pugiiistfcs, who did not add to thje mv>ral tone of the place. In reply, Mr McGowen. declared that he was ignorant of the modus operandi of these> contests, ibtut anything tTiat was tabooed in Great Britain should not be tolerated here. If (he possessed the' power to pre*Tent' the contests developing into brutal exhibitions, or anything jother than exhibitions of skill, he was determined. to do it. "The question; of the money element would be considered by the Cabinet.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10495, 5 December 1911, Page 5
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137BOXING CONTESTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10495, 5 December 1911, Page 5
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