THIRD RUGBY TEST.
KEEN INTEREST DISPLAYED. RUSH FOR SEATS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 30. ■ Equipped with boxes, rugs, extra coats, magazines, and cards, eleven hardy football enthusiasts braved a bleak wind throughout last night in a Queen Street shop doorway, waiting to buy tickets for the third Springbok Test at Auckland on September 25. The first seven arrived at 8 o’clock.
The Rugby “eleven” enjoyed splendid isolation apart from occasional police and civilian visitor's until 5.30 this morning, when the group swelled to twenty and by 8 o’clock the queue numbered two hundred. AYhen the doors, opened at 8.30 a perceptible surge ran through the queue. AVithin the first hour all the 400 seats on the auxiliary stand had been booked, and tickets for the enclosures and standing room inside the enclosures were finding a ready sale.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 6
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138THIRD RUGBY TEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 30 August 1937, Page 6
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