SUPPORT FOR RUGBY IN SOUTHLAND WANES
INVERCARGILL, Last Night. The annual report of tho Southland Rugby Union, issued to-day, discloses that the financing of tho Union has now become a difficult problem and a halt will have to be called, or financial embarrassment will bo tho ultimate end. Tho report states that it was only through generous treatment meted ou« to the Union by the Amateur Sports Trust, by delaying for a period of two years tho repayment of £SOO due to it this year, that the Union had been able to meet its liabilities as ■* ell as it had. The year began disastrously and by the time the season had become revenue-producing the bank overdraft had amounted to £IOOO. The Teport added that public patronage of club football was exceedingly disappointing*
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6851, 5 March 1929, Page 7
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