WELLINGTON RUGBY YEAR
DECLINE IN INTEREST EFFECT OF TRIAL MATCHES [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday The annual report of the Wellington Rugby Union slates that tho season started auspiciously and up to the end of the firet round of the senior championship the football was of a good standard. The trial matches for the selection of the New Zealand team were played in the week following the end of the first round and from then onward interest in club fixtures fell away and the form of the players suffered a lapse. Attendances declined and this was reflected in the gate receipts, which were slightly below those of 1934. " This feature is noticeable whenever a series of trial matches is played throughout New Zealand, culminating with the final trials in Wellington," the report continues. " and it would appear that havin.g worked up to a climax with the Dominion's best talent available in the final games, the publio thereafter lose interest and do not patronise club and interprovincial matches to the same extent as in normal years,"'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 19
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176WELLINGTON RUGBY YEAR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 19
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