BURNS-SQUIRES FIGHT.
OPINION OF MINISTER OF lands:
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. MELBOURNE, August 2".. The Minister of Lands, while in Sydney attended the Burns-Squires fight. As he had framed regulations to prevent prize-fighting and to license racecourses, and had never seen a fight, he attended to get personal experience, 'though the fight was not as brutal as ho expected, it had shown him, lie said, that it was pure nonsense to say that this contest had any ennobling or elevating influence. When one man got a tremendous blow there was a great yell of applause. If that blow had been effective ifmeant that the other man had been practically disabled for the time being, and the tremendous yells of delight that greeted this did not tend to encourage any delicacy of feeling. He saw nothing to make him reconstruct his ideas as to the Government giving any facilities at all for these exhibitions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2282, 29 August 1908, Page 3
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153BURNS-SQUIRES FIGHT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2282, 29 August 1908, Page 3
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