The Otago Rugby Football Union has installed 450 seats in front of the main stand and most have been sourced from Christchurch, where they are used at AMI stadium.
The seats were originally bought by the Otago Rugby Football Union to seat patrons on the Carisbrook terrace in June 2005 when the home side played the British Lions.
The union kept some of the seats and sold the rest to the Christchurch stadium.
But with the test sold out last month, the idea of temporary seating was floated, and the seats were brought back temporarily from AMI stadium.
The seats, priced at $50 and $80 for the test, were all sold within a day.
ORFU commercial and marketing manager Chris Green said the union decided to have the seats only in front of the main stand, as they could only source so many, and did not want the ground too cluttered.
The seats were comfortable and the views from them good.
They were a step up from the old wooden seats and scaffolding seen at the ground in the 1990s, Green said.
The ground was looking good.
Entertainment would start on Saturday about 6.30pm with a game of schoolboy Rippa rugby.
This would be followed by a performance by the Selwyn Ballet, and then a video montage on the big screen of 100 years of All Black rugby at Carisbrook.
Green said there would be a few surprises in store for the crowd.
Dunedin Mayor Peter Chin would sing the New Zealand national anthem while Dunedin soprano Claire Barton would sing the South African national anthem.
There would be about 29,000 people at the ground on Saturday with 27,500 in seats and the rest in corporate boxes and lounges.
