348 km dribble in danger
Pupils from Mairehau I High School will make an attempt to break the world I 24-hour basketball dribbling! [record of 348 km at Queen I Elizabeth II Park on Satur-j I day and Sunday. They are at present gathering sponsorships for the attempt, which is being made to finance a sporting, and cultural trip to Australia next month. i The school’s New Zealand championship girls’ basketball team, boys’ basketball ' team and music group leave on May 22 and return on June 2. There will be 70 in • the travelling party. The i Australian host school will <
be Killarney Heights, Sydney. This will be the second 1 sporting and cultural visit ;by Mairehau pupils. The I first visit was in 1975. A| j“dribblethon” was also used ' to raise money for this and on that occasion the pupils set the standing world record. The Voit ball used in the attempt was returned to the 'factory in the United States and is now on display there. | "Everybody has been working very hard for this. The whole school is behind it,” the school’s physical I education specialist, Mrj Kerry Williams, said yester-' day.
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