MOTOR CYCLING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 January 1927, Page 10

MOTOR CYCLING

* SPORTS AT ASH HURST. (BY Trj-KGKAFH PRESS ASSOCIATION-' PALMERSTON N., Jan. 22. The motor-cycle sports at Ashhurst on Saturday were held in fine weather. The attendance was about 4000. The results are: — Ashhurst Handicap, seven miles. Class B machines. —Morgan (Greytown) 1, Paton (Palmerston North) 2, Smith (Colyton) 3. Time, 7min. 55 l-ssee. President’s Handicap, 12 miles. — Smith (Colyton) 1, Beckett (Whanganui) 2, Viggars (Wellington) 3. Time, 13min. 3 3-ssec. New Zealand Lightweight Championship, eight miles. —Goodwin (Auckland) 1, Walker (Auckland) 2, Southward (Wellington) 3. Time, 7min. 55 3-ssec. Manawatu Handicap, seven miles. Classi A machines. —Coleman (Wanganui) 1; O’Brien (Wanganui) 2, Lowe (Hastings) 3. Time, 7min. Anniversary Handicap, eight miles. Class B machines. —Walker (Auckland) 1, McCready (Hawke’s Bay) 2, Morgan (Greytown) '3. Time, Bmin. 11 2-ssec. Raumai Handicap, eight miles. Class A machines. —McCready (Hawke’s Bay) 1, Mangham (Wellington) 2, Lowe (Hastings) 3. Time, 7min 49 3-ssec. Palmerston North Handicap, ten miles.—Paton (Palmerston North) 1, Wilkinson (Masterton) 2, Southward (Wellington) 3. Time, lOmin. 42 l-ssee.

The canoe Mangaone, which; has just been relaunched at Putiki, has an eventful past (says the Wanganui Herald, and her lodging-place at Putiki is for the reason that Putiki is neutral ground and the ca.noe is the subject of contested ownership. The canoe is a beautiful mode’, and it is hoped to be., able to raise the funds necessary to provide a proper . shelter for it, and a. slipway leading ‘to and from the river. v