ASSEMBLIES BAN
No Effect On . Rugby Test
PORT ELIZABETH, April 29. Officials of South Africa's Eastern Province Rugby Union were flabbergasted when asked yesterday whether attendance at Saturday’s Rugby test between South Africa and Scotland was likely to be affected by the recent ban on assemblies. A senior police official was equally surprised when asked whether special precautions were being taken in view of the recent disturbances in South Africa. “We expect everything to be just the same as in the past,” was the answer to both inquiries. The chairman of the grounds committee of the Eastern Province Rugby Union. Mr Chris Hatting, said that the ban An assemblies would not affect the attendance “at all.” Permission to stage the test had been a mere formality and the same police arrangements as in previous years would apply. "We don’t anticipate any trouble but there will be an adequate number of policemen at the ground to deal with anything that may arise,” a police official said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29192, 30 April 1960, Page 13
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