BILLIARDS.
There was an overflowing attendance in St. Cuthbert's Church, South Kogarah, New South Wales, when the question of establishing a school of arts was to be threshed out. Mr. Graff, president, of the Drummovne School of Arts, in the course of some remarks regarding billiard tables and tho indulgence by young men in tho gamp of billiards as an avenue for drinking, said:—" In Drummoyno billiards proved their best source of revenue, yet they had a hard fight to convince many of their members of the prudence of putting in the tables. To allay tho arguments brought to bear against them that billiards led young men to th© hotels, he had interviewed tho inspector of police, and! inquired as to how many of the large number of hotels in the Balmain district held billiard licenses. Th© inspector's answer was ' One.'" He (the speaker) was surprised to hear this, and asked, "Why?" Tho inspector said in reply: "Because th©re are so many schools of arts with billiard tables that men will not go to the hotols to play. And they have since proved that to be true.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14209, 4 November 1909, Page 8
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