ALL BLACKS HELD UP AT GATES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 71, 29 July 1929, Page 5

ALL BLACKS HELD UP AT GATES

(Received Noon.} SYDNEY, This Day. The Telegraph Pictorial re veals why Saturday*® test was late in starting. It appears tlie All Plaehs official party mini hers thirty-five, and thirty of these arriving in a charabanc „ were admitted! through! tliel giates, Imt the car containing the other five met with an official order; “You can’t come ini” A scene developed and the gate officials was) informed that if the party could not enter there would! he no match. Eventually a compromise was reached, the car remaining ontside and the passengers nassfng through the turnstiles. The players were thirteen minutes late in taping the field. Mr McLeod stated last night that liig threat of no match' was only a ,iohe... “We were so helpless,” he said.