£18,000 PROFIT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 5, 29 September 1937, Page 4

£18,000 PROFIT

-Presa Aasociatlon.)

Results of the Springboks' Tour £6000 AMUSEMENT TAX

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. Indications that the net profit of the Springboks' tour of the Dominion would be in the vicinity of £18,000 to the New Zealand Rugby Union were given by a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union recently. He st&ted that from the estimated gross proceeds of the tour to date, approximately £55,000, the following items wonld have to be deducted: Amusement tax, £6000; grants to unions for provincial matchcs at 33 1-3 per cent, £9223; to the Wellington, Canterbury and Auckland Unions for test matches at 25 per cent, £6833; expenses of tho tourists from CapetoWn t0 Melbourne, from Sydney to Auckland, throughont New Zealand and back to South Africa,- £15,000 a total of £37,056, leaving an estimated net profit of £17,94-4. The Individual Matches. With only one more match to be played, that against North Auckland to-day, these figures are unlikely to be materially altered. The approximate gross gate-taking; at the inatches played so far by tll Springboks ar6 as follows: — Aucklani £42000; Combined, ,£1843; Taranaki £2300; ManawatU, £2250; Wellington, £4500; New Zealand, £8182; Marl bcrougk-Nelson, £500; Canterburj £3500; West Coast-Buller, £700; Sout Canterbury, £1075; New ZeaiaiK £9150; Southland, £1500- Otago, £3000 Hawke's Bay, £1550; Combined £750 Ncw Zealand, £10,000; total, £55,000. Full Responsihility. The New Zealand Rugby Union assumcd full responsibility of the tour ing team as soon as it' embarked at Capetown taking all the net profits and meeting all the possible losses, exclusivc of the Australiun tour. The South African Rugby Control Board reeeivCs no financial gain whatever; in fact, it had to ineet the cOst of assembling the players and providing the neceBsary equipment. Regarding * tho Australiaii matches. tho Commonwealth Rugby authorities paid all the expensCs and received tho net pfofits. Mr T. W. Maben, sectetary of the Auckland Rugby Union, stated last evening that it would receive as tlie fcsfilt of the Test match on Saturday approximately £1000.