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PATRICK-BURNS FIGHT SYDNEY, January 31. Tickets for the Tommy BurnsVic ' Patrick fight, won by hours of discomfort in long queues, are now being retailed by “scalpers’’ at up to 350 per cent, profit. The sellers have fixed prices, and you can now purchase tickets for ringside seats for £lO. The police rule that this practice is not illegal. One scalper, whose re-sale of gallery tickets had already netted him £BO, said: “I have been earning a few honest quid.”
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Grey River Argus, 1 February 1946, Page 2
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