Veteran runners in Chch today

Press, 2 March 1984, Page 2

Veteran runners in Chch today

A team ot nine veteran runners completing a round-the-South-Island fund-rais-ing relay will arrive in Christchurch today. The veterans will run from Amberley, where they stayed last night, to Christchurch this morning. The team should arrive at Northlands Shopping Mall at 11 a.m. They will be met by Christchurch runners, and two paraplegics, who have travelled with the team, will travel the last stage into the city in their racing wheelchairs with the runners. The team will meet the Mayor of Christchurch, Sir Hamish Hay, in Cathedral Square at 12 p.m. The runners are collecting money to give to the Paraplegic and Physically Disabled Federation to help send a team to the World Disabled Games in the United States in June and

July. Since leaving Dunedin, running via Invercargill, the West Coast, and Nelson, the team has raised $B5OO. Mr David Hill, chairman of the sports committee of the federation, said the team hoped to raise more but had found many other appeals on their run. A total of $15,000 was now a realistic target by the time they reached Dunedin again on Monday. Two of the runners, Bill Temby and Matt Bennie, are Christchurch men, members of the Rovers Harrier Club. The team will have run 2100 km by the time it returns to Dunedin.