Harriers To Get Own Course

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 15

Harriers To Get Own Course

Canterbury harrier clubs should soon have their own permanent course if a decision made by the Canterbury cross-country delegates to lease land in the Harewood district proves acceptable.

After long discussion at the half-yearly meeting, club delegates decided to accept the lease of Catchment Board land opposite the Coringo County Golf Club with the intention of developing it into a complex of several different courses.

“It will mean a lot of fundraising and a lot of hard work, for the area is not ideal cross-country land. It is too flat, but we hope to create about three different courses over artificially undulating ground,” the secretary (Mr S. Jelley) said. “The only real objection was that it would be too dismal for the runners to cover the same course all the time.” The Canterbury cross-

country championships will be held over the Mairehau course on Saturday, July 25. The Canterbury teams to run at the New Zealand championships at Paekakariki. Wellington, on August 8, will be announced immediately afterwards.

It is proposed to send teams of 12 seniors, eight juniors, and eight women. The cross-country committee will endeavour to see that the organisation of the provincial championships is better than that at the recent Jane Patterson event There have been criticisms of the late start of that event, which meant that several races were finishing together at the same gate,, and the lack of course stewards.