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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
