JACK JOHNSON.
PROTEST AGAINST ADMISSION TO AUSTRALIA. INQUIRIES TO BE MADE. SYDNEY, July .5. The Assistant Minister of Customs, Mr. Perkins, stated that he had received many protests and complaints against the admittance of Jack Johnson to the Commonwealth because of charges against Johnson’s moral character. Mr. Lyons stated that inquiries would be made.
(A cablegram yesterday stated that the Sydney Stadium authorities had invited Jack Johnson, the former world’s champion heavyweight boxer, to come to Sydney as chief boxing instructor to the National Sporting Club, under whose auspices “Young” Stribling arrived. It was added that Johnson would leave Vancouver on July 20.)
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Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1932, Page 5
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103JACK JOHNSON. Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1932, Page 5
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