£410 Profit On Carnival
The Canterbury Swimming Centre made a profit of £239 on the appearance of the American girl swimmers at the Centennial Pool last Saturday. Gross rc ceipts amounted to £4l6—of which £331 was paid at the gate or in season tickets—and ex pcndlture totalled £lBO. The president of the Canter bury centre IMr S. Williams > last night termed the profit "an excellent result.” He said the carnival proved conclusively that swimmers of quality would draw good houses in Christ church. Not many other centres would achieve such a resu't during the Americans' tour, he added Centres at which the Americans appear had to guarantee the New Zealand Amateur Swim mlng Association £lOO or 50 per cent of the net gate, whatever was the greater. Thus the Canterbury centre will pay the national body £ll5
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 14
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137£410 Profit On Carnival Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 14
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