Drivers, walkers vie
Slow joggers and walkers may find themselves competing with rally drivers for room on the Summit Road today. Tours for joggers and walkers around the proposed Mount Vernon Park have been organised by the Canterbury Cross-Country Committee. As well, the Auto Sport Club has organised a car rally on the Summit Road which will be closed to ordinary traffic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The chairman of the Cross-Country Committee, Dr Frank Nolan, said that the tours would start at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. and he hoped people would have completed them by 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Walkers would start from Centaurus Road on the corner of Centaurus and Ramahana Roads, up Rapaki Track, across the Summit Road, and climb Mount Vernon. They would then walk along the road to Huntsbury Hill and back to Centaurus Park.
One of the organisers for the rally, Mr Barry Cunningham, said yesterday that the first car would start from Evans Pass at 11.15 a.m. The first part of the rally would go as far as Sugar Loaf, he said. In the afternoon, cars would leave Gebbies Pass at 3.30 p.m., and come back the other way. Mr Cunningham said the drivers would be warned to keep an eye out for any people on the road.
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