A LONG TRIAL RUN
: MOTOR-CYCLE TOUR IN SOUTH. BY telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, November 18. The story of a tour of New Zealand, a large part of which was done on a motor-cycle, was told to Mr. H. A. Young, S.M., to-day, but the machine was a stolen one, and the rider was in the dock charged with theft of it. He was Frank Watson McIvor, a ship’s fireman, aged 30 vears, and, pleading guilty, he was sent to the Supreme Court for sentence. His peregrinations on the motor-cycle extended from Christchurch to the backblocks of Southland. Mclvor got some of liis petrol free from the Salvation Army. He got the -machine in the first place from the Gibbs Motor Company, Christchurch, and to the salesman was a potential buyer, so was allowed a trial run.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 12
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135A LONG TRIAL RUN Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 47, 19 November 1926, Page 12
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