FREE ADVICE CASE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 291, 8 September 1928, Page 5

FREE ADVICE CASE

4 A FURTHER PHASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, September 7. Once more a phase of the Free Advice ease was before the New Zealand Trotting Association to-night,- when the secretary read a letter written to .Mr. IV. E. Thompson, president of the New Brighton Trotting Club. “I am instructed by the president of the association to eall your attention to a report of a meeting of the New Brighton Trotting Club’s committee appearing in the ‘Lyttelton Times’ of August 25, wherein you are credited with saying: 'Right through the association lias not taken a fatherly interest in the clubs. It has sought for a way. fair or otherwise, to defeat the object of the rules under which the clubs acted,’ and to ask whether this is a correct quotation from your speech.” As explained by the president, the rules provide: “If any person shall write, or cause to be written, publish, or cause to be published, utter, or cause to be uttered, any Improper, insulting, or abusive language witli reference to the conference, or association', or members, or officials thereof, he may be deemed guilty of a corrupt practice and may be fined any sum.” etc. The board went into .committee to consider whether Mr. Thompson should be dealt with under the rules.