Illegal Boxing: Contest

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12794, 12 June 1909, Page 7

Illegal Boxing: Contest

i GISBORNE, June 12. In the cas£s in which Crawford, Skally and others, jtvere charged' with engaging m a boxins? contest for which a permit was not obf&ined, the Magistrate inflicted fines of fivjjehiJlings each, remarking th.at the conte* appeared to have been conducted in an. orderly manner, and that there wa«j nothing objectionable in it, except thatfthe promoter had failed to obtain the , necessary permit. ™ Rega !£ ing J the - caaeß in w «ich'6O persons were dferged with being present at the contest the Magistrate thought it i - aexpediei^ to jnflict any punishment, and dismiased them under the provisions of action 92 of the Justices of the Peace