Profitable shield match
PA Auckland The Eden Park Ranfurly Shield crowd on Saturdayj, numbered between 49,0001 and 50,000 and paid about! $55,000 in gate money. Announcing these figures! yesterday the chairman of! the Auckland Rugby Union.! Mr Ron Don, said that the! ground capacity was 51,000 and that only "parts of the I:
iNos 2 and 3 stands — kept open for holders of A.R.U. complimentary passes — were not full. “The reasons why the gate takings might seem small compared with the size of the crowd was that there were thousands of members tickets, A.R.U. season tickets and complimentary passes” said Mr Don.
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