RECORD ATTENDANCE
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45,000 People iSaw - The Teist ;
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. That the crowd for the first Test was the greatest ever seen at Athletic Park is borne out. by the gate receipts. Receipts totalled £8130 compared with £7007 for the Test'on the same ground in 1930. Admission prices for the two matches were the same and seating aecommodation within the enclosure was approximately the same ■ but for comparison allowance must be made for the fact that more higher-prices tickets were sold for Saturday 's match than in 1930. The estimated attendance was about' 45,000.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 179, 16 August 1937, Page 6
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