POLICE NEGATIVE

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 8

POLICE NEGATIVE

ROUGH HOUSE WRESTLING A ROUT PROHIBITED VISITOR’S TACTTCS QUESTIONED lAust. and X.Z. Cable) Auckland, June ID. li is obvious tha-jj the Police Department is determined, to prevent prolesioual wrestling in New Zealand from T)ceorning the wild business it O in America and other pa its of the world. When the Auckland Wrestling Association applied on r l uesduy last ioi permission to stage a. match between: Stan Pinto and Seottv McDougalll the application wa :S refused. The reason, for the rein sal. to grant a, permit for the match provisionally arranged was, it is understood, that the police were not satisfied with Pinto’s display in. ‘his match against Jack Higgins. In the opinion of the police the American’s conduct was not in the best intorsts of the sport and the morals of the public. It is understood that Inspector Hollis also intimated that under no consideration would a repetition of such conduct he tolerated. Tlie police have instructed the wrestling authorities that all application for must be accompanied by the names of the contestants.