A JOCKEY’S CIVIL RIGHTS
(United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, July 16 A jockey named Harold Norman Wiggins, who was recently deprived of civil rights for ten years, applied to-day for a rehearing, it was stated that at the hearing Wiggins, who is 19 years old, pleaded as an excuse for failing to attend drill that- he was often away from Auckland, whereas the real reason was that he suffered physical fatigue as the result of rheumatic fever and cardiac trouble in 1923. Horse-racing did not affect him, but he could not stand still for any length of time. As his health had now improved, he was ready to drill. The Magistrate (Mr Boynton) adjourned the case for a year, the threat of deprivation of civil rights being held over defendant.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 July 1924, Page 5
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129A JOCKEY’S CIVIL RIGHTS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 July 1924, Page 5
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