PLACE OF RUGBY
Forecast Of Decline Rugby is declining as sport and in another 10 years would be on a par with other sports, according to Mr A. J. Holt, physical director of the Christchurch Y.M.C.A. and a New Zealand gymnastics loach and judge. He said that Rugby club Membership was about the lame as it was 20 years ago, though the population was inereasing. He said that other sports such as soccer, basketball, rolleyball and gymnastics were becoming more popular. “Four years ago volleyball was hardly heard of. Today Canterbury has at least 25 »ood players.” The older generation would continue to have an interest in Rugby, but he believed hat the younger ones would income more interested in >ther sports.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32303, 22 May 1970, Page 16
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