“NATIONAL SHRINES”
KEEPING THE RACECOURSES CLEAN
By Telegraph— SPrc’ < I Correspondent. Auckland, January 15.
"Horse racing is our national religion and racecourses are our national shrines, so that we must keep them as free as possible from bad characters,” said Mr. J. W. Toynton, S.M., dryly in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. He made the observation in replying to Mr. R. A. Singer, who had made a plea for leniency on behalf, of Archie Dowell, charged with trespassing on a racecourse, he being a convicted person. Mr. Singer had stated that Dowell, a man of 22, had been on the course "only verv momentarily," siiue lie had a restless horse outside. "It is one of the anomalies of our Legislature that a man is fined £1 for stealing £lO and £lO. for going on a racecourse,” said Mr. Singer. . "And (or breaking a church window he mav get six months for sacrilege,” retorted the Magistrate "I suppose none of this money taken in fines goes to the Racing Conference,” observed Mr. Singer. “Our verv good Government gets all that,” Interjected Chief Detective Cummings. The pleasantries over, Dowell was fined £lO on one charge and convicted and discharged on another.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 6
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