PAIR WITH BARROW
ARRIVAL AT TIP/lARU
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU, October 7. The barrow-pusher, L. G. Lukey, with J. C. Schofield as passenger, who.left BlufJ on September 23 on the 400-mile trip to Christchurch reach-ad Timaru at 5.10 o'clock this evening, having covered 300 miles in 15 days. Lukey hopes to complete the trip in 20 days. He aims at reaching Christchurch at 4 p.m. on Saturday, and appearing at a sports fixture. If he accomplishes the task he will have averaged 20 miles per day for the entire trip. Going up to Waimate was very hard on account of the loose gravel, and the trip was much more arduous than the recent North Island undertaking. Splendid weather was encountered till nearing Timaru, when the pushers ran into the first shower of rain.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 14
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133PAIR WITH BARROW Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 14
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