NO HARM IN EUCHRE TOURNAMENTS.
The difficulty experienced by school committees in raising sufficient funds with which to meet incidental expenses was mentioned, by Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Avon) in the House of Representatives > yesterday afternoon* Mr. Sullivan said tho difficulties of committees had been. added to 83 a result of the ban placed, on euchre tournaments by the Polica Department. '. " The Minister of Education (the Hon. E. A. Wright) said he did not think it would be possible to legislate to meet the difficulty, but something _ would hay» to be done to enable committees to carry on harmless euchre tournaments. "Personally," said the Minister, "1 am not a betting ov a sporting man, but I don't see anything wrong in these tournaments. School committees gener- _ ally have done very excellent work, and they a«e deserving of every encouragement."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 8
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