SOAP BOX DERBY
More than 70 scouts and cubs in Christchurch will take part in a soap-box derby on a hill subdivision at Mount Pleasant tomorrow. "Several scout groups in the Rapanui district formed a sub-committee to make the 'event possible,” said Mr P. J. D’Rourke, a troop master
I with the Mount Pleasant ! group. “The boys will race i their own carts which they t have designed and built” Permission to race at the i new subdivision was given by I the Christchurch City Coun- ! cil. The organisers hope to . make the derby an annual • event.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32660, 16 July 1971, Page 8
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