Taranaki’s Best Season
(New Zealqna Press Association/ NEW PLYMOUTH, September 21. More than 172.000 persons paid • more than £27,884 to sec; nine Rugby matches for the Ranfurly Shield during the last two months and a half at Rugby Park, New Plymouth. It was the Taranaki Rugby Union’s most profitable season in its history. The total of £27,884 is a gross figure and the union has to pay substantial costs incurred during the season.
The largest crowd, the 30,500 which paid £4714 to see Taranaki play Waikato, set a record for Rugby Park.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28697, 22 September 1958, Page 14
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