WRESTLER’S EARNINGS
MINISTER EXPLAINS A suggestion that Sergeant-Major “Lofty" Blomfield was allowed to make £IOOO a year for wrestling, while other soldiers were only receiving their army wages, made by a member of the Denniston Miners’ Union at a meeting in Westport, was ridiculed by the Minister of Mines, the Hon. P. C. Webb, who said Blomfield received no more for wrestling than the average miner’s wages. I-Ie added that Blomfield had been classed as unfit for service overseas when he enlisted, and he had only wrestled when on leave. The New Zealand champion wrestler was a great supporter of the Labour Party, and had 'given it good publicity overseas. but e sen that would not give him one concession more than the average soldier in military camps in the Dominion.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 11
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131WRESTLER’S EARNINGS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 11
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