Rugby supporters’ club closed at 1000 members

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32678, 6 August 1971, Page 20

Rugby supporters’ club closed at 1000 members

The Canterbury Rugby Supporters’ Club has closed' its membership at 1000. Officials of the club fee) that a membership in excess of the present number would be too unwieldy, in the light , of the ready response to social functions. In future, the club will place applicants on an associate member list and admit them to full membership when vacancies occur. Because of lack of interest,: the club has decided not to 1

! continue with its processions I on Ranfuriy Shield challenge days this season. But it still has many and varied activii ties in prospect. One of these ’Will be the "Player of the 1 Year’’ dinner, at the Winter Garden on October 6. The president (Mr D. Young) is to lead a supporters’ tour when the All Blacks visit the British Isles ; in 1972-73, and, in the more i immediate future, the club is planning a collection of old football gear to send to Tonga;