Dogs to run for charity
There could be a loud cheer from children at , Queen Elizabeth II Park on) Saturday afternoon as the winner of the South Island Challenge Cup for class seven greyhounds crosses the line. The Christchurch club will run its last totalisator meeting on the track until October and the feature races will be the South Island hurdles and the Challenge Cup. The Challenge Cup, apart) from its stake of S3OO has been sponsored for $250.' that amount to be donated to a chari tv. At a special function last evening, the eight finalists) for the South Island Chal-i
lenge Cup were drawn to j correspond with the eight 'selected charities.
With 1979 being the Inter . national Year of the Child, ‘ the Christchurch club chose 'its charities mainly with .'children in mind. I The charities and the runiners which will represent , them on Saturday afternoon are: Cholmondeley Childrens I Home (Proud Velvet); Crippled Children Society (Shaun Boy); Society for In- ; tellectually Handicapped (Reefton Rosita); Marylands j Special School (Kilty Ramtibler); New Zealand Foundation for Blind (Torrianna /Charm); Parklands Plunket I Society (April Flyer); School for Deaf (Speedy Becky); /Templeton Hospital and ; (Training School (Reefton i Amber). __
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