SIDE-SHOWMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22835, 20 March 1936, Page 6

SIDE-SHOWMEN

CONTROL BY LICENCE EXPENSE OF GAZETTING REGULATIONS ' / (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 19. The necessity for having some proper control of showmen by licence was urged by Mr L. J. Wild, of Fcilding, president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, in an interview to-day, commenting on the case in which a showman was fined for aiding and abetting tbe playing of an unlawful game at the Waverley Show. u ln point of fact,” said Mr Wild, the Royal Agricultural Society has gone to considerable trouble and expense to draft regulations providing for such licensing under the Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Amendment Act, 1933, and one or two associations have made the necessary regulations, and one has gazetted them. Unfortunately, the expense of gazetting them is such that it would cost about f 1000 to gazette regulations for each and every association in the country, and until tbe majority of the associations have made regulations it is not practicable for any one association to insist upon the production of licences by showmen. “ What is wanted, and wanted immediately” Mr Wild added, “is an amendment to the Act providing that when any association has adopted a. standard set oi regulations the fact can be gazetted in a brief and inexpensive notice in the Gazette without the reprinting of the whole set of regulations, which printing involves the expense referred to.