UNOFFICIAL PROGRAMMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 626, 1 April 1929, Page 13

UNOFFICIAL PROGRAMMES

Th« Wealthy English Rugby Union i- started to declare war on what terms “pirate” programme sellers. th c ere i s mone >* in football programmes i* f d days, as the Xew Zealand Rugby <n!* n on the record-breaking tour in 1921. The prooffi7i U ? e 8 iSiiUe d in that year under a, 1 a uspices were not just as good . *55 might have been, and an en:n * Southern publicity agent, to ti ln £ a opportunity, started the country with a vigorously ter m rival Publication. As a counfar a °J e * the authorities announced ofß#.*** w *de that there was only one oJJXjJ Programme. and that any tr iM not sanctioned by the conn •mg body. Their irrepressible rival. '. er > Promptly advertised that his ne only unofficial programme, and ih a * 11 ?* as a better programme than w-iA Published under official sanction. Ur inn 'h® New Zealand Rugby Football # Woke . tiP to the fact that the - 01 officialdom was no guarantee 1 monopoly of programme rights P. riva te € nterprise. their enterrival was proclaiming that his •inH.” V' already run into many thouttSJ* °* c °P ies and that he was still '-.alw- Stron ** ln f ootball circles it was conceded that the honours of - .mrr. Wer& wi th the unofficial proVe ndor, and even some of the CawjT of New Zealand Rugby ■ Jmour W 2 e ,i aWe i to a PP fe " ate , the fbe situation. Nowadays, olftru,g opportunities of the unPublisher are strictly limited.