RUGBY CONTROL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 11

RUGBY CONTROL

UNION SHOWS PRQFIT ANNUAL BALANCE SHEET In the. balance sheet of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union for the year 1932-33 a net profit of £65 13s Id is shown. Last season representative gate takings amounted to £2Bl 18s 6d, as compared with £248 10s for the previous year. Last year’s figures, however, included the “gates” from the New Zealand Maori team which visited Gisborne. Club “gates” amounted to '£l6B, a decrease when compared with 1931, when £lB9 18s 5d was taken. This decrease is accounted for in the lower admission charges last year, when the usual Is charge was reduced to 9d. On the expenditure side of the balance sheet the largest item was interest on loans, which amounted to £152 4s 6d. Die upkeep of the Oval amounted to £l5O. Touring expenses for the senior team are set down at £25 14s 6d, while those for the junior team amounted to £l6. The. insurance fund for players shows a loss of £2l Bs, the expenditure totalling £44 Us 6d and the receipts £26 3s 6d. Tile prospects for Rugby this season are improved by the fact that it is understood that a separate sub-union is to be formed with headquarters at Waerenga-o-kuri, to be known as tho Tahunga sub-union. Five clubs are stated to be joining up, the district extending from Waerenga-o-kuri to a point near Te Reinga.