LONG CYCLE RIDE
WELLINGTON-AUCKLAND RETURN
(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLIGTON, January 23. (Looking remarkably fresh and fit, although hi* eyes? were bloodshot through lack of sleep, L. G. Lakey, tho Canterbury cyclist, concluded his ride to Auckland 'and back, when he finished at the Wellington Post Office at 7.36 o’clock this evening, after covering a distance of 924 miles in four days. t • He said that he could have reached Wellington at the scheduled hour, 6.30 p.mfjf'biit for the fact that he stopped at iyLeVin to have a general clean-up, ancPHq get rid of four day’s growth of beard' on his face." Throughout the journey he had no punctures and no spills.
‘‘The machine Lohaved perfectly, ’
Lukey said. The cyclist left Wellington at 6.10 o’clock on Saturday evening, and arrived. at Auckland at 3.20 p.m. on Monday. He left there an hour later On the return journey.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1935, Page 5
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