AFTER THE TEST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 7

AFTER THE TEST

-Preaa 'AssociationJ '

Clearing of Debris from Eden Park BOY "TAKEN DOWN" * ' 1

. (By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, La^t Night. . ,The litter left at Eden Park by Ihe erowd pf 58,000 which attended the final Bugby Tesf pn Saturday stiB • cpvered fhe greater part pf the grouud ; to-day aud'it is pypected. it will be the end oi the week before t'he ground is rpstoredi to its .normal order. Twenty- , five men were pngaged in dismantflhg , the temperary seating and fencing but thp number will be reduced to-morrow. Plame-throwers lent by the Mount Eden Borpugh Council were used to burn spme pf the . rain-sodden. newspaper? hut the aeh hlew into neighbpur- ■ ipg propertie? where wa?bing was kang* ing pn fhe line ?o the atteinpt was abandoned. Paper aad other rubbish will be buried pn the ground. Had the newspapers been dry the Salvatiou Army would have removed them fe? pulping. Seagull? usually aid in scavenging work hy eating any gcraps of food but US this is the nesting season the majority of the birds are away at the nesting grounds. The grQuud wa? searehed for fcny ^ articles of value as soon as the match - wa? pyer. One hoy found twp £1 note? . but SQQU lost; them. Auother seaipher ' — a man— noticed the boy's gopd luck and i.mmediately told hini' that he was J; an official and t&king charge ! of the -money, gave the boy l? .for finding'it, v The man was not an official but the boy , WUs not quick enough. to-Tealise it,