BIG RUGBY CROWD
SATURDAY’S TEST MATCH Considering that petrol restrictions must have prevented a large number of country people from visiting Hamilton on Saturday, the crowd at the Fijian-Maori test match was very large. The gate takings amounted to £SBO, a record for any day when the low-scale prices ’of admission have been charged. Although no official estimate of the crowd has yet been made it could be said that between 8000 and 10,000 people saw the match. Apart from the British match in 1930 and the Springbok game of 1937, the crowd was the largest to attend a Rugby match in Hamilton.
It was the second biggest crowd before which the Fijians played in New Zealand, the 12,000 at Auckland being the largest.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 4
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124BIG RUGBY CROWD Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 4
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