SHOW SIDE-SHOWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 147, 6 June 1936, Page 7

SHOW SIDE-SHOWS

Matter That Must Be Threshed Out CONTROL BY-LAWS By Telegraph—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, June 5. Tho undesirable naturo of certain side-show exhibits was briefly referred to at a meeting of the Southern District Council of the Royal Agricultural Society in Invercargill this afternoon. A remit was sent by the southern council to the last annual conference of the Royal Agricultural Society urging that existing legislation dealing with side-show exhibits be made more strict or that censorship be introduced. This remit had been approved by the conference, and the following advice was received from the secretary of flic society: “This matter has been energetically prosecuted, and we have now reached the stage of getting a set of by-laws that has been approved by the Commissioner of Police and by the Minister of Agriculture, and has been actually gazetted by one association. Any association that wishes to adopt the by-laws and put them into force must gazette them in full, even though the by-laws are identical in form and substance for all associations. The cost of this is prohibitive, so a request has been made to the Minister of Agriculture for an amendment to the Act to meet the difficulty. 1 am glad to say that the Minister has promised this without demur. “The sooner this matter is threshed out the better,' commented the president of tho council, Mr John Preston <>l Wailionaiti.