AFFLUENT RUGBY LEAGUE.
GATE-TAKINGS IN SYDNEY. Tho New South Wales Rugby League is a wealthy institution. It possesses assets of £17.670 15s 6d, the main item being £10.194 17s 4d in the current account at the bank! Last year the receipts were £24,486, and tho net profit £4158. Tlie league paid to England and Queensland out of gates in Sydney £11,200. Sydney is tho financial Mecca of tho Rugby League world, English and Australian. From the gates at club matches tho league receives only one-third of the net; that is, after tho ground charges and gatemen's wages have been paid. Each club concerned in tho match receives a third. Tho clubs are on a sound financial wicket, seeing that they also receive a proportion of tho amounts paid ,to tho league for tho members' tickets.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 12
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135AFFLUENT RUGBY LEAGUE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 12
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