HANDICAPPER PRAISED
Sir, —As a much travelled South Island visitor to your town, also an old axeman of long standing, may I through your paper congratulate the handicapper for the axemen’s events at your Autumn Show of Saturday last. Without -the automatic judging machine the picking of placings in all events would have been impossible as die finishes were so close that no human eye could have caught anything up to the first 10. and in one event a scratch man. after giving away a big handicap, finished first in what I am sure was record time.
On making inquiries, and I wonder if You could verify this, I found that the handicapping for all events, also the sawing, was done by a woman. If this is so it was a wondrous feat unequalled, I am sure, anywhere in New Zealand. J. A. MASON.
(The handicapper of the chopping and sawing events was Mrs. A. W. Lloyd, daughter of the late Mr. O'Rourke, veteran axeman and former handicapper for the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association. —Ed.]
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 6
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