The Wheelbarrow Marathon
STILL A LONG WAY TO GO United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, Midnight. MELBOURNE, July 25. The barrow-pusher, William Darwin, and his passenger, William Araiguet, have arrived at Broadford, 51 miles north from Melbourne.
Cheered by 2000 people, William Darwin, a member of the Brighton Council and a drum-major of the Brighton Municipal Band, set off on the afternoon of July 21 in an attempt to push a fellow bandsman, William Amiguet, from Brighton to Sydney, ia a wheelbarrow, in ten weeks, the distance being 600 miles. There is a £IOO wager attached to the event. The barrow is streamlined and fitted with a windscreen. .
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 174, 26 July 1935, Page 7
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