HUGE PROFITS MADE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1925, Page 2

HUGE PROFITS MADE

OUT OF ALL BLACKS. .U'STUALIA.N AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOC]ATION LONDON, January 2S. 51 r Prescot and Air Cooper (Secretary) of the English Rugby t nion, decline to disclose the financial result of the All Blacks’ tour. They say that a statement will he made to the I'inaiiee Committee on February 13. .Air Present declared: “The finances have nothing to do with the New Zealand public.” It was solely, he said, a matter for the English Union. The Australian Press Association lias ascertained from reliable sources, that a conservative estimate of the profits exceeds £50,000. The aggregate of the attendances was 050,000. It is stated that the profit cm the N.Z. Fiigland match alone was Ltl.m>o. Dr Morgan states that the receipts from the All Blacks’ matches in Wales were £40,000. It is believed that the Wales and Ireland matches of the All Blacks each gave a profit of £SOOO, which is far in excess of their union’s heavy guaran-

France, which had guaranteed' £BOO has reaped a profit of £IOOO. It is understood that the English I nion shares at least £40,000 of the profits on the basis of a 60 per cent for itself, and 40 per cent for each County Union. The average nett receipts from all the matches were £IOOO. The total expenses of the tour amounted to about £14,000 the whole of which were wiped out by the profits in the England, and the first London and Combine. ! Services matches at I wickcuhuni. LONDON, Jnmuiry 28. The English Rugby Union’s All Black profit figures are in striking contrast to the cricket profits, which are shared, whereas none ol the football profit will go to the New Zealand Union. LONDON. January 28. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company will provide free first class travel for 'the All Blacks across Canada ti Vancouver. Thereafter the New Zealand team will travel as second class passengers, at the expense of the English Rugby Union.