SIDE-SHOW EXHIBITS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 6 June 1936, Page 26

SIDE-SHOW EXHIBITS

BY-LAWS ARRANGED AND APPROVED (PEES 3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) . INVERCARGILL, June 5. The nature of certain side-show exhibits was briefly referred to at a meeting of the Southern District Council of the Royal Agricultural Society in Invercargill this afternoon. A remit was sent by the Southern Council to the last annual conference of the Royal Society urging that the existing legislation dealing with side-show exhibits be made more strict, or that a censorship be introduced. This remit had been approved by the conference, and the following advice was received from the secretary of the society: “This matter has been energetically prosecuted, and we have now reached the stage of getting a set of by-laws that has been approved by the Commissioner of Police and by the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. Lee Martin), and has been actually gazetted by one association. However, we have now discovered that every association that wishes to adopt the by-laws and put them into force must gazette them in full, even though the by-laws are identifical in form and substance for all associations. The cost of this is prohibitive, so a request has been made to the Minister for Agriculture for a short amendment to the act to meet the difficulty. I am glad to say Ihe Minister has promised this without demur,” said the letter. “The sooner this matter is threshed out, the better,” commented the president of the council, Mr John Preston, of - Waikouaiti.