NEW CYCLING RECORD
CHRISTCHURCH TO DUNEDIN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, November 29,
Hiding under favourable conditions, L. G. Fleming, a well-known Canterbury cyclist, completed the.long journey from Christchurch to Dunedin in excellent time today, breakirig the previous record by abpufc thirty minutes.
He left C'hristchurch at 4.5 a.m., reached Geraldine 4 hours 48 minutes later, and arrived in Dunedin ibefore, sunset.; I^e was given a reception by a number o£ cyclists. " . -. ■ The previous record was held by W. L. Oldman, Oxford; Canterbury, who rode the distance of 243"miles "in 14hr ,2mih 51sec in January,, 1911. : , >.t
A decision to hold tlie annual conference of the life-saS'ing head" centres at Auckland at the time of thte surf ehanipionships was made at the annual meeting of .the New Zealand Council of the -Royal Life-saving Society last night, according to a Ghristchurch Press Association message.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 4
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