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		[Meeting of Directors held at Goodison Park,
		September 4th 1917]

Present		W. R. Clayton Chair
		Messrs	H. Banks
			J. G. Davies
			H. Halsall
			B. Kelly

Minutes		The minutes of last meeting were read and
		confirmed.

Practice	The Secretary read letters of thanks from the
game		Treasurers of the Stanley Hospital & Saturday Fund.

Gambling	The Secretary read his letter to Mr. Tomlinson
Prosecution	& reported the visit of Chief Inspector Gillanders
		who stated that apart from the duty of the Directors
		to prosecute offenders the constables on duty
		were authorised to take instructions from their own
		superior officers only, except in very exceptional
		cases, & that heretofore plain clothes constables
		had visited our matches as an act of favor,
		and he wished to know if we were prepared to pay
		for their services should Mr. Tomlinson feel disposed
		to grant them. The Secretary was instructed to
		reply that our complaint was that neither the
		constable nor sergeant, when requested, seemed
		inclined to accompany the directors concerned
		when the case of gambling was reported to them:
		that arrangements must be made that the
		inspector in charge station himself in a previously
		ascertained spot in case of a report having to
		be made to him: that we were not prepared to