EXCLUDED FROM RACECOURSE.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4524, 24 February 1922, Page 1

EXCLUDED FROM RACECOURSE.

MAY BE A TEST CASE,

Christchurch, Feb. 15., At the Magistrate’s Court on February 15 the; secretary of the Metropolitan ' Trotting Club proceeded against William O’Connor under section 33 of the Gaining Act, 1908 (which forbids admittance to racecourses of 'persons, convicted under the Crimes Act): O’Connor had been convicted of assault at Auckland in 1916. The main evidence was that of Ward, a racecourse detective, who stated that he had three times warned O’Connor that his presence on the racecourse rendered him liable to prosecution. Counsel for defendant urged that the club’s regulations were unreasonable. Giving judgment today, the Magistrate uphold the regulations, arid fined defendant £6 10s and costs, adding that this would enable him to go further and test the validity of the regulations.