SPORTSMEN ALARMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 214, 10 September 1925, Page 12

SPORTSMEN ALARMED.

j AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN. ! . - . j I A CALL TO ORGANISE. \ j . y Telegraph.--Press Association.) ' j i WELLINGTON, Wednesday. ! Speaking at the annual meeting ot the Wellington Trotting Club this evening, the president, Mr. Armstrong, said there never had been greater need tor vigilance ou the part of those connected with tbe sporting institutions of New Zealand. The extremist section was taking a much more active part in eonncction with the approaching Parliamentary ckvtion than ever before. An alarming number of candidates at the approaching poll would actually be nominees of extremists, who had wormed their way into the party selection committees in a number of districts. It behoved the sporting community to watch very carefully how they cast their votes for candidates at the election, otherwise they might wake up one morning and find that a new Parliament had filched away their rights and liberties overnight. Subsequently a resolution was carried that the meeting viewed .with alarm the appearance of so many Parliamentary candidates known to be adherents and nominees of bodies opposed to the : totalisator, and calling on the Sports Protection League to organise sporting bodies to prevent the return of a Pacliament a majority of which would be .pledged to the extremists.