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For the much of its existence as Wellington’s Premier rugby ground, the far side of Athletic Park was known as the western bank, and its denizens were known as western bankers. Not for the faint-hearted, the western bank was a precarious, often dangerous, and sometimes feral embankment that was upgraded following
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