FOOTBALL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 July 1924, Page 9

FOOTBALL.

LEASE INFRINGED. USE OF FORBURY PARK. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, July 23. In reference to the Rugby League securing a lease of Eorbury Park on August 9 for the test match with the English team, at the institgation of the Rugby Union a lawyer’s letter has been dispatched to the Forburv Park Trotting Club, intimating that the club’s concurrence in the proposal is an infringement of the union’s lease of Forburv Park and will be resisted. THE ALL BLACKS. MATCH AT PALMERSTON. RECORD BOOKING. PALMERSTON N., July 23. A record that must stand for a considerable time has been achieved here in regal’d to booking for the All Blacks’ match on Saturday, every seat in the grandstand at the showgrounds having been booked. The box plan closed yesterday, but some time before the closing hour the best available seats of 2504 had been reserved. Applications for seats were still being received at .a. late hour yesterday afternoon, and these bad to be refused. Many requests for reserved seats came from country residents this morning and a few verbal applications are still being made. This morning sixty additional seats could have been reserved had they been 'available. An hour after the box plan opened last Thursday 1000 seats had been reserved. There, have been about 700 more seats booked for the All Blac-lc match than for the Springbok game in 1921.