FOOTBALL ATTENDANCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21736, 30 August 1932, Page 7

FOOTBALL ATTENDANCES

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, —"Aucklander " has again ventured to acquit himself of the intellectual feat of writing an irrevelent letter of misstatements such as appeared in his previous letters, and to justify his attack upon me under the shelter of an assumed name. He rambles on about attendances at Kugby Union matches, and introduces guesswork figures to try and strengthen his pitiably weak case. The Otago Daily Times did not publish any figures relative to the number of people who paid 2s each for admission for the union matches, referred to by "Aucklander." May I repeat that " the Rugby League code holds the record football attendance for New Zealand. If "Aucklander " is"so cocksure that this is not so then I suggest that he write to the Commissioner of Taxes in Wellington and ascertain the total of 2s paid admissions to the matohes which he claims as union records. He can also take any other ground admission charge into consideration, and it will be found that, the total •paid admissions to any one union match will not exceed 25,000. The other scribe, "Another Aussie," is as far away from the point as the North Pole is from the South. The Rugby League code as played in New Zealand is the modern amateur code of Rugby.—l am, etc., Dunedin, August 20. H. Divers.