Thero was a craze for speed even before the .days of the , motor-car. Read this from the-Hastings Standard of Decembcr 23, 1896: 11 At 2 o'clock this afternoon Mr. Geo'rge Ebbett, accompanied' by Mr. • Murfitta started fromthe TJnion Banlc corner in a sulky with the object of.^ trotting- into-- Napier within 50 minutes" for . a wager. Notwithst.anding an . unfavourable wind, M'r. Ebbett accomplished ' his ■ task, covering ;the 5 distahce > in s 47" minutes. . Mr. Arthu"r . Hyde accompanied, him on his bike.". • . . .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 40 (Supplement)
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