INVASION FROM DUNEDIN

Southland Times, Issue 22969, 15 August 1936, Page 6

INVASION FROM DUNEDIN

Soutliland-Otago Return Match ACCOMMODATION FOR BOOKING QUEUE The return Rugby football match between Southland and Otago is going to be a great event. There is every indication that Rugby Park next Saturday will be a sight to be remembered. It was reported a day or two ago that the attendance and receipts at Carisbrook on August 1, when the Maroons made their unsuccessful challenge for the Ranfurly Shield, were records. The story of how Southland supporters were there in force is now history; but it is evident that there will be miles of dark blue ribbon and vociferous encouragement for Otago when the present champion team of the Dominion files out a second time against Southland. Interest is added to the occasion by the fact that the Southland Rugby Football Union will be celebrating its jubilee on the same date. ( Preparations for the presence of Dunedin’s renowned bugle band and pipe bands from throughout Southland and Otago are well in train, and it seems that the Railway Department will have to make another special effort to transport the crowds which will be Invercargill bent for the day or the week-end. The match itself promises to be extraordinarily interesting, but to many the “extras” will constitute nearly as big an attraction.

Queue Moving To Theatre. Booking opens on Monday morning. With the experience both in Dunedin and in Invercargill of Southland’s challenge in Dunedin to serve as a valuable guide, the Southland authorities are doing everything possible to conduct the obtaining of reservations in a manner that will not permit profiteering. Four seats are the limit to be issued to any one applicant. It is expected that a queue will form at Charles Begg’s shop many hours before the doors will be opened, and a question which was exercising official minds was catering for these enthusiasts throu -h their hours of waiting. In Dunedin, they were taken to the Y.M.C.A. building for the night and issued with tickets numbered in accordance with their places in the queue. There is no Y.M.C.A. building in Invercargill, but the problem has been solved satisfactorily by the offer of Mr Errol Fuller, manager of the Majestic Theatre, to allow the queue to be transferred to the theatre under conditions similar to those which operated in Dunedin. Each member will be issued with a ticket as he leaves the queue, and the party will be able to leave the theatre on Monday morning in time to form up again at the ticket counter. If anybody leaves before that time, his queue number must be surrendered. Charles Begg and Co. are co-operat-ing by installing a radio receiver of the latest model which will provide entertainment from all quarters of the globe. The plan will enable enthusiasts to spend the hour’s of holding their places in the queue in warm and comfortable surroundings. It is likely that the Majestic Theatre will be a popular rendezvous on Sunday night and early on Monday morning.