RACING DURING WAR-TIME.
« ' The 'question; of : prohibiting race meetings, or materially reducing , ; the number of -; such i; meetings, during ;;;. the ; currency of the: war, was considered by the Nelson Licensing .- Committee. .Mr. T. Pettit moved that the ; committee should invite the Government to consider; the passing of j. legislation s prohibiting ; race; meetings in I;the'; Dominion f or". ■ the .'duration 'of i the war. ,: Every man should, be prepared to lay iaside sport at the present ; time. The chairman, Mr. F. O'BJ Loughnah, S.M.. suggested that tho ; word "reducing' should be substituted for prohibiting."; Mr, Pettit . agreed to ' the substitution jof the words," materially reducing,"and the motion, as ■ altered, v was carried. >,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16499, 27 March 1917, Page 7
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