SPORTING COUNCILLORS.
Tho Christ church branch of the Athletic ami Cycling Union proposes | to run a sporting "ticket" for the next municipal elections. 'Die, qualifications of the candidates wliose names appear upon the "ticket" will probably be that they can run a hundred yards in (en .seconds, kick a goal .from Lito middle of the liehl, knock up a century at cricket, use the boxing gloves with proticiency, heat boge t \ !■ every time in Sunday golf, swim like !a ('luck, and pic'k every winner n;i the card at a race meeting. "Willi these qua I i (ica t inns, an ideal civic I; iher hood should be provided. Kim\\;edge Oj" "finance, adniitiisi rative ability, ami such like (rifles do not count in (.'lirislchurch, where I here arc said t o be a greater number of cranks to the sfpiare mile than in any oilier community outside the regions set apart specially for mental derelicts.
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Wairarapa Age, 13 December 1920, Page 4
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