TICKET SPECULATORS.
A SLUMP m PRICES
SCALPERS" MAY BE CAUGHT,
(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.")
WELLINGTON, this dav.
There "is a slump in ticket speculating for the final Test on Saturday. Early rushes ifor grandstand seats enabled enterprising people to secure good reserved positions, but they failed to realise that the original three thousand stand seats might not be the only possible reservations. The Rugby Union has since made available thousands of other reservations and published a plan showing definite seating or standing room for over 40,000 spectators. Large temporary stands, with a maximum placed on their capacity, have given about 9000 further reservations of a general character.
All this enterprise has discounted the value of grandstand reservations, which were at first freely advertised "what.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 186, 8 August 1930, Page 9
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