£3OO WHEELBARROW WAGER
DISTANCE OF 600 MILES. TTME LIMIT TEN WEEKS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph. Copyright). SYDNEY, July 21. Cheered by 2000 ]>oop!o, William Darwin, a member of the Brighton Council and drum-major of the Brighton Municipal Band, set off this afternoon in am attempt to push a fellow bandsman, William Amiguot, from Brighton to Sydney in a wheelbarrow in ten weeks, the distance being 600 miles. A wager of £3OO is attached to the event. , The barrow is stream-lined and is fitted with a windscreen.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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88£300 WHEELBARROW WAGER Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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