Carisbrook Disorder
Sir,—Saturday’s test match at Dunedin, from my position on the embankment, could only be described as a drunken orgy by many of the spectators, apparently visitors. Three youths equipped with six flagons, 12 bottles, and 12 cans of beer drank themselves Into a stupor. The empty flagons were then used for another purpose usually reserved for public conveniences and were then tipped over and spectators hurriedly retrieved rugs, cushions and food containers. Finally, two of these youths ended their orgy by vomiting to the distress of adjacent women spectators. The embankment after the game resembled the aftermath of a riot, most of the bottles in fragments. Spectators near the Neville street embankment had tipped their empties on to the road and shattered glass was everywhere. Drunks were being assisted from the exits. What is the Rugby Union going to do to protect decent people at these games? —Yours, etc., BAN THE FLAGON. July 18, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 16
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157Carisbrook Disorder Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 16
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