FOOTBALL FORECASTS
Bill To Legalise Newspaper Competitions. ENTRANCE FEES PROHIBITED. (Australian Tress Assn.—Cnited Service.) (Received 10.."{ft ii.ni.l LONDON*, February If). Major A. AV. Braithwaite. M.P. (Con.. Buckrose) introduced a hill to permit newspaper competitions for forecasting football results. Tlic hill prohibited entrance fees and made it i I lepra 1 for anyone to submit mure than one entrv tor each competition. The latter is to prevent, fictitious circulation?. The bill was read a lirst time. AGILE PRISONERS. BREAK AWAY FROM POLICE. i Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDXKY. this day. Iwo prisoners. Patrick Duncan and A\ alter .lones, who were being brought to Sydney in charge of a con<tai>k. escaped at the central railway station. The men, who were handcuffed, tripped the constable, slipped the handcuffs and dashed away in opposite directions.
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Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 7
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