Rugby Booking Queues

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28981, 24 August 1959, Page 3

Rugby Booking Queues

Sir, —A visitor from foreign parts, surveying the scene in Lichfield street, might well be forgiven for concluding that some fearful catastrophe in the neighbourhood had driven the luckless inhabitants to seek temporary refuge in the streets of Christchurch. Really, in a civilised community, is it not rather ridiculous, and pathetic, that people should be reduced to such expedients to get tickets for a game? After recent experiences, as at Wellington, your recommendation that admission to such highlighted affairs as Rugby test matches should be by ticket only, seems incontrovertibly sensible; but there seems to be an equally strong case for. a distribution of agencies for tickets instead of concentrating public enthusiasm on one agency. Whatever the interests or difficulties involved, this seems clearly a case when the convenience of the man, or woman, in the street should take precedence over all other considerations.—Yours, etc., TOUCHLINE. August 21, 1959.