AMATEUR WALKER'S RECORD
.While, walkings comes naturally. .:,U> man, and while there is no exercise more conducive to. good .health, most people. prefer to hop on • a tram or a train. . It is a good thing for the revenue .that all are not. like Mr. X A. Brown, vice-president of the New South Wales Amateur Walkers' Club. Now over 60 years of age, and a single man, and a non-smoker, he has been walking for pleasure for 20 years. He does not seek - championship" honours.^ The fair heel and toe business does not worry him. He walks just as he pleases and takes all his holidays that way. In 20 years' he has covered almost. 6000 miles,, in 184 walking days, and his total outlay has been- £105 and a few" odd;shinings. He walks in air kinds of weather, carries only a pint of water, and also fortifies himself with chewinggum as' a thirst-quencher. And he always has a pint of beer when he Beaches a town. Mr. Brown says tfcere is nothing more bracing than thai farm of holiday.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19231107.2.111.4
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1923, Page 9
Word Count
180AMATEUR WALKER'S RECORD Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1923, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in