ROAD RACE
TIMARU TO CHRISTCHURCH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, This Day,
Under a sunny, cloudless sky, with a cool north-easterly breeze, 84 starters turned out this morning for the | annual Timaru to Christchurch road race organised by the Mairehau Cycling Club. The event includes the < 112 miles New Zealand road championship. The limit men left the mark at 8.45 j and the scratch men were dispatched at 9.35. | The entries cover most of the South Island and include most of the North I Island's prominent riders. There was j a large crowd of spectators to see the! riders off at the Grand Hotel corner, j from which the competitors got a good downhill start. The superintendent at Timaru was Mr. W. H. Hall and the official starters the Mayor (Mr. W. G. Tweedy) and Messrs. H, H. j Fraser and J. O'Leary. J AT ASHBURTON. An Ashburton message reports that the forty-minute men were the first through there at 11.58. The first scratch rider was Wilmott, at 12.13.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 11
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168ROAD RACE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1938, Page 11
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