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Sum of £2514 Received as Admission Charges * NO OFFICIAL DINNER An attendance eslimated at 17,15-1 witnessed tho II.B.-South Africa match at Napier yesterday, paying £2514 1/6 for admission to the grounds and stands. These figures, which are a first check inerely, include all holders of complimentavy tickets^ and the 4,000 school children who attended. No official ceremony was held after tlie match. To stage an official dinner ilt an hotcl meant waiting until after 7.30 p.m., whou al] tho other gucsts would be finished tlioir meals, in ordur lo accouiuiodate Ihe 100 people expoetcd lo Lie present, and when it wns found that the visitors wore not iu t'avour of an official dinner, it was decidcd uot to hold it. The teauis. thorefore, dined at separate hotels. The visitors left Napier ©t 9.30 this morning by railway buses for Gisborne, there being a small party of offieials present to givo them a farewell.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 6
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