NEARLY RIGHT
Most sports enthusiasts throughout the Commonwealth would know that the Games are being held in Christchurch, New Zealand. But not, apparently, someone in the newsroom of “British Airways News" in London. On the back page of the latest issue of the weekly is a photograph of the runner, Murray Halberg, mounting the steps into a jet. The caption says he is taking the baton carrying the Queen's message “to the start of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 7
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