Roller Skating N.Z. TITLES
Junior Half-Mile Record Broken
(New Zealand Press Association) HASTINGS, January 15. High standards of skating were maintained when the New Zealand roller-skating championships were continued in Hastings today. The promoters have now made up time lost through two days of bad weather at the beginning of the week. '
A new national record was established tonight in the junior boys’ half-mile speed event. Paul Snaddon (Napier) clipped four seconds off his own previous time of 2min Bsec.
Attendances at all sessions today were large. Tonight about 1000 attended.
Junior Girls’ Novice Freestyle.— Lorraine Martin (Te Aroha) 1, Margaret Adams (Petone) 2, Janis Sutherland (New Plymouth) 3. Intermediate Pairs Freestyle.— Kerry Wales and Cheryl Rees 1. Junior Girls’ Solo Freestyle.— Elaine Matthews (Napier) 1, Maxine Kitt (Hastings) 2, Kay Marsh (New Plymouth) 3. ' Juvenile Girls’ Solo Freestyle.— Ann Gillett (Hastings) 1, Beverley Matthews (Napier) 2, Louise Grey (New Plymouth) 3.
Intermediate Boys’ Solo Freestyle. —Kenneth Aberhart (Gisborne) 1. Frederic Rogers (Napier) 2. Kerry Wales (Napier) 3. Junior Girls’ Quarter-mile Speed Championship.—June Dillon (Hastings) 1, Corrine Grant (Hastings) 2, Jennifer Cartwright (Hastings) 3. Time, Imin 2.4 sec. Intermediate Free Dance Championship.—Lyndon Pedlow and Cheryl Rees (Napier) 1, Kenneth Hutchison and Maxine Kitt (Hastings) 2. Junior Boys’ Half-mile Speed Championship. Paul Snaddon (Napier) 1, Raymond Hayes (Hastings) 2. Colin Nirhmo (Picton) 3. Time. 2min 4sec (New Zealand* record).
Senior Novice Dance Championship.—Frederic Rogers and Beverley Lett (Hastings) 1, John Ramsay and Dianne Griffiths (Hastings) 2. Russell Martin and Lorraine Martin (Te Aroha) 3.
Senior Free Dance Championship. —Peter McAulay and Valerie White (Napier) 1, Breenan Wales and Jennifer Rees (Napier) 2, Roger Hutson and Pauline Bromley (Hastings) 3. Senior Men’s Half-mile Speea Championship.—lan Hughes (ChchJ 1. M. Wybrott (Hasting?) 2, Gordon Millar (Paraparaumu) 3. Tima, Imin 54sec.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28795, 16 January 1959, Page 5
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