LICENSING SHOWMEN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 150, 20 March 1936, Page 15

LICENSING SHOWMEN

Prohibitive Expense Of Gazetting Regulations AMENDMENT TO ACT URGED The necessity for having some proper control of showmen by license was urged by Mr. L. J. Wild, of Feildlng, president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, In an interview with “The Dominion” yesterday, commenting on the case in which a showman was fined for aiding and abetting in the commission of the offence of playing an unlawful game at the Waverley Show. The police said they had received a complaint that some farmers had been "taken down.” “In point of fact," said Mr. Wild, “the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand has gone to considerable trouble and expense to draft regulations providing for such licensing under the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations Amendment Act, 1933, and one or two associations have made the necessary regulations and one has gazetted them. Unfortunately the expense of gazetting them is such that it would cost about £lOOO to gazette the regulations for each and every association in the country and until the majority of associations have made the regulations it is not practicable for any one association to insist upon the production of licenses by showmen. “What is wanted, and wanted immediately,” Mr. Wild added, “is an amendment to the Act providing that when any association has adopted the standard set of regulations the fact can be gazetted in a brief and inexpensive notice in the Gazette, without the reprinting of the whole set of regulations, which printing involves the expense referred to.”