THE "GASSO DERBY."—To prove that "There's plenty of life in the old dog yet," Mr. Bert Scanlan, aged 57, accepted a wager to wheel Mr. Ernie Ruby, a 13 J -stone ex-League representative, from the gasworks in Freeman's Bay to the Suffolk Hotel, half-way up Col'-ege Hill. Hundreds of people followed the event with interest. Trams and motor traffic were held up.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 11
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62THE "GASSO DERBY."—To prove that "There's plenty of life in the old dog yet," Mr. Bert Scanlan, aged 57, accepted a wager to wheel Mr. Ernie Ruby, a 13 J -stone ex-League representative, from the gasworks in Freeman's Bay to the Suffolk Hotel, half-way up Col'-ege Hill. Hundreds of people followed the event with interest. Trams and motor traffic were held up. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 11
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