Runners to leave Amberley today
A team of Canterbury runners slept at Amberley last night before beginning the next phase of a South Island baton relay — at 8 a.m. today. The athletes are part of a big team which is carrying a baton from Bluff to Picton as part of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association’s centennial celebrations. Five batons are being carried by hand from various points in New Zealand to Wellington, where the national athletic championships will be held this week. Each athlete participating in the venture is sponsored, and the money raised will go to a trust fund for the development of young athletes. The Bluff-Picton relay began on February 25. Canterbury, which has representatives of 25 clubs, took over from Otago at the Waitaki River at noon on March 1. The runner who entered Cathedral Square at 1.30 p.m. yesterday handed the baton to the Deputy Mayor of Christchurch, Mr Maurice Carter, who signed a scroll associated with the relay.
Today the baton will be carried to the Conway River, where Canterbury will hand it over to Tasman centre runners.
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