VISITING BOXER
Dal Costa, one of the leading bantamweight professional boxers in Australia, arrived by the Marama from Sydney today to engage jn a number of contests in the Dominion. Costa has had 22 bouts in the course of his professional career, and has been beaten on only two occasions—by Johnny Peters, the Engljsh boy who visited Australia recently, and by Mervyn ("Darkie") Blandon, the' bantamweight champion of Australia. His first contest in New Zealand will be against the winner of the Wright-Hawes bout for the bantamweight championship, and will bo staged at Christehurch on August 11. After he returns home Costa will meet Blandon for the Australian title. He told a "Post" reporter that he was in the pink of condition and had suffered no ill-effects from the voyage. He will remain in Wellington until a week before his Ohristchurch bout.
Pleading guilty to a charge of having been found without lawful excuse in the Bristol Hotel, William John.Wade, aged 57, a labourer, and Yernon Patrick Rowlands, aged 40, a labourer, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Mr. E Page, S.M., in v the Magistrate's Coiu-t today. The Magistrate ■ remarked that Wade had forty-two previous convictions, and Rowlands had nineteen previous convictions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 14
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