AFRICAN RUGBY TEAM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1922, Page 8

AFRICAN RUGBY TEAM.

-• : c PROFIT OF £7.670. r 11 RECEIPTS TOTAL £20.000. j 1 (By Telegraph.—Press Awociation.) c WELLIXGTOX, Thursday. \ . The long-expected balance-sheet of the Springbok tour of New Zealand was pre- . sented to the annual meeting of the council of the Xew Zealand Rugby Foot- I r ball Union this afternoon. It shows,' . briefly, a net profit of £7670 17 2. The ' gross gate receipts amounted to some. \ £25,000, and the net gate receipts to * £17,196. Of the matches played the I ' following figures give the principal tak- j j inss, the gross gates being given first and j ' the net amount within parentheses, the 11 balance being expenses, including ground ' rent, advertising, hotels, etc.: —Wanca- ' nui, £977 ( £516); Taranaki, £1016 f (£3SS): Wairarapa, £SOO i£5!H); 1 Wellinston. £2339 ( £1S14) : . West I' Coast. £401 ( £2391: Canterbury. | » £1227 ( £533): South Canterbury. £775 j 1 H £4S1); Southland, net amount. £905; : Otago and First Test. £3643 ( £2379); I ] "Manawatu. net amount £883: Auckland£2o4o, and Second Test £4364. expenses • j "both matches £2395. net £401S: Wai- i j tato. £798 (£550); Hawke's Bay," £542 j j (£345): Maori Match, £673 ( £255) : L Kelson Combined. £503 ( £376) : Third 1 1 Test, Wellington, £3807 (£3144). h '-Amongst the items of expenditure , were: Steamer fares South African : team. £4294: hotel and, travelling ex-1 penses South African team in New Zea-1 land. £2202: rail fares of visitors. £"i!i3; ' cutfitting. South African board, £GSS; ; management and selectors" expenses., X-Z.R.L"., £389; wages and general expenses, £514: extra stands. £3GO. On the same sheet accounts of the I Xew Zealand Rugby Union presented j , liabilities. The accumulated fund stands , at £8-20S*>a gain for the year of £324G, j \ the total, including sundries, being j, +110,497. The assets include £10.995. in , the G.P.O. Savings Bank: deposits, in- _ scribed stock, and certificates. £75.* i: , fares for the French tour (recoverable), JESOO: niortgazes N>f various unions, £3775: share X.S.W. tour profits. £709. ! In addition, the revenue account showed the following profits for various matches: Xotables v. Possibles. £82; J •North v.- South, £212. ' After some discussion the balancesheet was adopted.