A Novel Contest.
FEILDING, January 8. A novel contest with Feilding as the finishing point took place to-day. Taylor, of Wanganui, left that place on "a bicycle, and Lawrence, an oldtime runner, of Marton, left that place, each at 2 o'clock, the latter on foot. The match was for £lO aside, and a £5 donation. Great interest was taken in the event, and a large number of people awaited the arrival of the contestants. Taylor, who had to come 44 miles, arrived first just on 5 o'clock, having passed Lawrence one and a-half miles from the winning post. Taylor lost 40 minutes mending punctures in the tyres of his bicycle."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19080109.2.21.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9023, 9 January 1908, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
110A Novel Contest. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9023, 9 January 1908, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in