Run for funds

Press, 17 July 1978, Page 3

Run for funds

Six hundred runners raised about $450 for New Zvaland’s team to the Edmon t o n Commonwealth Games in a fun run at Hagley Park yesterday.

The runners, men, women, and children aged from five to 65, had the choice of three courses. About 400 of them took the longest course of about 7km, while the rest opted for the shorter courses of about skm and 3km. After the run the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr H. G. Hay) presented a prize of book vouchers to Heaton Intermediate School for having the largest number of school runners participating. About 50 pupils from the school took part.

Mr Hay also presented a typewriter to the Toe H club for having the largest number of runners from any sporting organisation in Christchurch in the run.

The entry fee was $1 for adults and 50c for children. Everyone who purchased a run card was entitled to participate in a draw for a free trip for two to Rotorua and return. This was won by Mark Perham, aged 8. Travel bags were given as consolation prizes. It was the first community fun run for Mark, who said he had not yet decided whether to take his mother, father, or one of this three elder sisters with him to Rotorua.