CYCLING
CHRISTCHURCH. TO DUNEDIN
FLEMING BREAKS RECORD
DUNEDIN, November 29
Riding under favourable conditions L. G. Fleming, a well-known Canterbury cyclist, completed the long journey from Christchurch to' -'Dunedin in excellent times to-day, breaking thej previous record by , about thirty minutes. • ■: ’ -i
He left Christchurch at 4.-5 a.m., reached Geraldine four, hours fortyeight minutes later, and arrived in •Dunedin before sunset. He was given a reception by a number of cyclists. '-'The"' previous "record was held by W. L. Oldman, of Oxford, Canterbury, who rodo the distance of 243 miles in 14 hours 2 minutes 51 seconds in. January, 1911, '
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19331201.2.71
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1933, Page 6
Word Count
100CYCLING Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1933, Page 6
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in