BURLESQUE BOAT RACE
St. John And Traffic Men The annual boat race between officers of the St John Ambulance Brigade and traffic officers of the Christchurch City Council, which began four years ago as a joke, this year will be run as a fund-raising effort for the Crippled Children Society. One hundred crippled children will be guests of the competitors for the event and it is expected there will be hundreds of other watchers. The competing teams this year will meet as boys of Chiselbury School and girls of Tnman’s in appropriate dress. Their first encounter will be at the Antigua street boatsheds at 10 a.m. on Saturday and the inevitable argument will lead to a challenge for the boat race. In single-seater canoes the teams at six will move tram the boatsheds up through the gardens to the first bridge with no rules of behaviour. The race will then take place do w nett earn with no tactics barred. The Ambulance Brigade at present holds the shield but the traffic department is making a determined effort to win it ‘his year.
The cheque from the collection will be presented to Professor H. E Field, president of the CanterburyWestland branch of the Crippled Children Society at a social function on Saturday evening. I
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 12
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