ABORIGINES MAY CARRY OLYMPIC TORCH TO GAMES
It has ' been suggested that Australian aborigines might carry the Olympic Torch across Australia, from Darwin to Melbourne, in 1956. The proposal is before the Games Organising Committee in Melbourne. If the aborigines are chosen to carry the torch there will be a choice of two routes, both more than 2,000 miles in length. One would be from Darwin to Adelaide, via Alice Springs and then on to Melbourne. The second route would be from Darwin through to Tennants Creek, Mount Isa, Brisbane, Sydney and then to Melbourne. This route would be a thousand miles longer than the first. Both routes are v/ell defined., although, in the Queensland area, the roads are little more than cattle tracks hr some places. ■ Aborigines have been known to perform prodigious feats of running. One man in the Northern Territory ran more than 100 miles in a day' with only a drink of water to sustain, him. The aborigines can continue in temperatures in which no white man would last.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 40, 19 September 1949, Page 3
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173ABORIGINES MAY CARRY OLYMPIC TORCH TO GAMES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 40, 19 September 1949, Page 3
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