CRICKET TEST CROWDS
A fine new stand at tho Melbourne cricket ground, being erected for tho pending cricket tests, will greatly increase the amount of seating accommodation, snys the Hkhau>'s Melbourne correspondent. Half of the stand was made available for the Victorian League football finals. Nevertheless, so popular is the game that only early arrivals could obtain seats. Tho crowd began to assemble at dawn, by 10 a.m. most stands were comfortably full and by noon all seats had been taken. Those who arrived later cheerfully stood 011 tip-toes 011 the asphalt areas in front of tho stands while waiting for the match to begin at 2.45 p.m., and throughout tho game, which lasted, with intervals, for two and throequarter hours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22579, 18 November 1936, Page 22
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121CRICKET TEST CROWDS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22579, 18 November 1936, Page 22
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