Driver to be paid
11 1 ; The six-week dispute between ithe Christchurch Speedway Asso- ;! elation and the Woodford Glen driver, Wayne Wilding, has been I resolved. | Wilding won a “dynamite demolition derby” at the Templeton track on Sunday, April I 30, and after he had survived ..track-side protests from two , I other drivers, Wayne Denovan ’ ■ and Maurice Briggs, was presented with the “wlnner-take-all” icheque for ElOOO.
11 But when Wilding tried to cash . ■ the cheque the following week, he found it had been cancelled I by the speedway association beII cause Denovan had lodged anI other protest, this time to the ' governing body of speedway in New Zealand, the Speedwav ConI trol Board. 1 , After more than a month of > deliberation, the board had rei jected Denovan’s appeal, aceord- • ing to the manager of Templeton ’ Speedway (Mr R. Lang., and Wilding would be paid shortly.
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