Ono of -i.he most interesting evenings spent l>,v Mr, l l '. Wrey Nolan (hiring bis stay in England was at the National Sporting Club on the occasion when Tom If coney, Gisborne’s heavyweight fought Jack Stanley for the heavyweight champion shim of the British Empire. Apart, altogether from the interest, in seeing lloeney in action, Mr. Nolan said that the National Sporting Club had so many associations with the most famous fighting men that England had produced that it made the occasion, a memorable one. There was a great gathering of New Zealanders there that night, including the Prime Minis-! ter, and Keeney received a great ovation from them. 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16242, 17 January 1927, Page 6
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