CANTERBURY RUGBY
Sir,—Would the Canterbury Rugby Union please explain the following:— (1) why it persists in the “first four” system in the senior competition, instead of playing two complete rounds and declaring the top team the winner. This “first four” system, which is only staged to draw bigger and extra gates and is unheard of anywhere else in New Zealand, is obviously very unfair to the leading team in the competition. (2) Why admission charges to the grandstand were raised 50 per cent, and to the bank 100 per cent. To say that costs have risen in this proportion since last season is ridiculous. While the union continues to jiursue a policy of cash first and Rugby second we shall again have the spectacle this season of minor as well as major union teams trouncing the Canterbury representatives.—Yours, etc., PROGRESS.
May 28. 1946. [Mr W. E. Maxwell, president of the Canterbury Rugby Union, had no comment to make.]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 9
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