Snow mean feat ...
Officer Cadet Eric Fontein passing near Lake Lyndon during a snowstorm yesterday. He was one of 25 Royal New Zealand Air Force cadets who, undeterred by heavy snow and torrential rain, ran from Greymouth to Christchurch during the week-end. The cadets, running to publicise and raise money for the R.N.Z.A.F. museum, arrived at Wigram at about
: 6 p.m. yesterday. It was J thought last evening i that they had raised about > $5OOO. They left Greymouth at - 11 a.m. on Saturday in 1 warm, torrential rain. One i of the runners said that it i was like running in a bathroom shower. i Running in relays, the ’ cadets reached Craigieburn , at 9 p.m. A large slip stopped the runners’ support
s vehicles going further, and » the team spent the night at t the Flock Hill Lodge. The slip was cleared by 9 t a.m. yesterday, but the i cadets had to run in snow • lying scm thick on the road, t Heavy snow continued to fall until they were on the Christchurch side of Porters » Pass. i Yesterday afternoon the 3 cadets were averaging t about 15km an hour.
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Press, 11 July 1983, Page 9
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