NEW UNCASTER PARK STAND

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30109, 18 April 1963, Page 11

NEW UNCASTER PARK STAND

“Steady Response” To Scheme

Not as many members •of the public were interested in the membership scheme to finance the No. 3 stand at Lancaster Park as the Victory Park Board had hoped, said Mr H. C. Blazey at a meeting of the board last evening. The subscriptions could be described as steady without being spectacular, he said. One of the features of the scheme of which the public were perhaps unaware was that for the first time it was a time-payment scheme. “All that is needed is a payment of £6 and then £3 a month over a two-year period until the £75 has been raised,” he said. “We felt this would enable the man in the street, who perhaps does not have the ready cash in a lump sum, to subscribe without undue hardship.” There were still quite a few seats to be sold. He hoped that the opening of the Rugby season and the forthcoming test series between England and tire All Blacks would stimulate public interest in the scheme.

Plans for the main part of No. 3 stand were almost completed, and it was hoped to call tenders soon, Mr Blazey said.

Presenting the ground committee’s report, Mr Blazey said that broadcasts during the cricket season bad been made from the west end of No. 1 stand. This was so successful that the committee recommended the same location be used during the Rugby season.