Rugby Bookings

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28980, 22 August 1959, Page 3

Rugby Bookings

Sir, —May I appeal on behalf of the boys (the future footballers) for some help with test seats? Now the public are to have no choice (I am not complaining), could the union reserve the two I front enclosure rows for children,

as was done for the Springbok test? It is easier for them to sit on low planks than adults and they cannot see further back. 1 know the union provides a boys' enclosure, but al) children cannot take the bedlam in there. My own child has been in it for two overseas matches against Canterbury now. the result both times being a week in bed. He is not alone in this. His team-mates are queuing in the early morning hours, hoping to obtain front enclosure seats.—Yours, etc., TWO GAMES EVERY SATURDAY. August 14. 1959.

I The president of the Canterbury Rugby Union <Mr H. C. Blazey) said that the union catered for more than 2000 boys in. the boys' enclosure, and a large proportion of that section was seating in the oval enclosure. The smaller boys occupied the seats and the bigger boys were allowed to stand in front of No. 4 stand. There should not be bedlam with a staff of between 50 and 60 supervising the section. Other than that, there were several thousand ordinary enclosure seats, and any of those could be reserved at 4s each for children.