ILLEGAL RACING
CASE BEFORE THE COURT. . (By Telegraph—Press Associatien.) TIMARU, Last Night. The farmers around Beaconsficld village have been accustomed for some years, to hold mixed sports meetings in a paddock on Boxing Days, the sports including some gallops and trots for local horses-, the prizes being provided by sweepstakes. The races were not advertised, but it had become an understood thing that they would be held. To-day two of the managers of the sports were prosecuted under the Act of 1909, for holding an illegal race-meeting. For the defence, it was contended that this was a sports meeting and not a race meeting, and there was nothing more in the races than if men agreed to try their horses in'reaching some point across a paddock. Mr Day, S.M., referred to the Little River case, and convicted the defendants, but imposed no penalty bevond costs, ,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10589, 22 March 1912, Page 5
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145ILLEGAL RACING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10589, 22 March 1912, Page 5
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