SEATS FOR FIRST TEST
Protest From Southland QUALITY OF ALLOCATION PA INVERCARGILL, May 16. Objection to the Otago Rugby Union’s allocation of 50 tickets to the Southland Union was voiced at a meeting last night of the Management Committee of the Southland Rugby Union. Replying to the Otago Union, the Southland secretary. Mr G. H. Geddes. wrote: “I have received your allocation of 50 seats for the first test. To my amazement, I find that the whole of the allocation is in the back row of the Rose stand. It is felt by my committee that this is little short of ridiculous.”
Mr Geddes went on to say that on any occasion when members of the Otago committee visited Invercargill for representative fixtures, seats were given in the middle of the main stand. “ I have checked on our records of Canterbury’s allocation for the Springbok test in 1937. For this we were granted 150 seats, most of these in the middle of the main stand,” he added. The Southland executive is to frame a remit to be put forward at the next annual meeting of the New Zealand Union concerning the allocation of test tickets.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27391, 17 May 1950, Page 8
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195SEATS FOR FIRST TEST Otago Daily Times, Issue 27391, 17 May 1950, Page 8
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