ROAD RACE FOR CARS
• ♦ AGREEMENT TO CHANGE OF ROUTE Y v ? rs , to tak - ® art in the roaa race to be held by the Canterbury Car F ? bruar y 26 would be hand members ol the Papanui picket Serv ‘ ces Association would R l , S , route ever y 80 yards, said „ • V-W- Laing, chairman of the Waimain County Council, at a meeting ot the council last evening. Mr Laing’s remarks were made when a ♦u 6 ? ♦u tlOn . from tbe works committee •hat the club be offered an alternative route to the one first chosen was before the council. The jeommittee reported that there had been some objection by residents in the district ,„ Cr - Laing said that the club had agieed to use another route—Russlev, Burnside. Graham’s, Waimairi. Avonhcad and Coringa roads. The . laps would be just more than three miles each, and the total distance 70 to 100 miles. The race, which would be the i ncn runnG s a centennial race in 1950, would be very well conducted.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25608, 24 September 1948, Page 11
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