SERVICES CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP
Dominion Special Service. WANGANUI, September 24. Eight teams will lie contesting the New Zealand combined services cross-country clianipionship to lie held in Wanganui tomorrow. The race will be over a 7-1-mile course, starling and finishing nt Cooks Gardens. Kill'll team will consist of live runners. Ich his will represent the Army, three the Air Force, and one I lie Nnv.v. W. 11. Nelson, ' Southern An Force, is classed as one of Ihe most promising harriers in Ihe Dominion. lie Judds the New Zealand junior three-mue and om- mlle records. He established Hie Jailer on Cook's Gnrdeus during the New Zealand junior ' ami women’s allilclie cliuu'iiiiiiisiiips in Marcli, 1911. Southern Air Force is furthei- strengthened by one id' Wellington's most promising runners, IV. ,1. McDowell. A member of Hie North ern Air Force learn, J. A. Dari-och, was the Auckland secondary school mile champion for three years. A. F. Savidnn, n brother of the noted W. Savidan, is iu the Northern Air Force team.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 3
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