3000 MILES ON BICYCLES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25365, 12 December 1947, Page 2

3000 MILES ON BICYCLES

TASMANIAN NURSES’ TOUR

Two nurses from Tasmania who yesterday arrived in Christchurch on the final stage of a 3000-mile cycling tour, were guests at the Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon. They are Miss E. Pearce and Miss M. Fraser. To members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce they said they had come to Christchurch as a direct result of seeing a booklet on the city which the chamber had published some time ago.

This was not the first cycling tour they had made, having previously toured tneir own state, they said. Throughout their New Zealand tour they had covered 1700 miles qn their cycles and the remainder by “lifts." They had not had one puncture during the trip and had not sought a meal or a bed at a hotel. They had stayed at 15 different motor camps. Starting from Wellington last April they cycled up the west toast of the North Island to Auckland, and then hitch-hiked around North Auckland as far as the Bay of Islands. During the winter months they worked as nursing aids in Auckland, and when the tour was resumed cycled through Rotorua and Taupo to Wellington. They then crossed to Picton and visited Nelson and the West Coast as far south as Paringa. From there they went to the southern lakes, Milford Sound, and Invercargill.