RUGBY FOOTBALL
FINANCIAL POSITION IN SOUTHLAND By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, March 4. The annual report of tbe Southland ißugby Union issued to-day discloses that the financing of the union has now become a difficult problem, and a halt will have to be called or financial embarrassment will be the ultimate end. The report states that it was only through the generous treatment meted out to the union by the Amateur Sports Trust by delaying for a period of two years the repayment of £5OO due to them this year that the union had been able to meet its liabilities a. well as it has. The year began disastrously, and by the time the season had become revenue’ producing the bank overdraft had amounted to £lOOO. The report added that the public patronage of club football was exceedingly disappointing.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 6
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138RUGBY FOOTBALL Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 6
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