LONG CYCLING TOUR.
■;;'■•: : ; —* -—— .- . V^/,->'s THREE MONTHS' PROGRAMME. > —■' "■"■■■ SYDNEY RESIDENT'S PROJECT. :vj| ;'.-.■■- ''-.-.: ■■.-:■. ' ' J. *$ A three months' sight-seeing tour 08 New- Zealand on a push bfcycle is thß . programme.srranged,by. Mr..jE. A, Pear-, H son; a' member of the survey branch of „' the Few South Wales Registrar-General-s ,' Department, 'who arrived at Auckland by ; ; the Marania yesterday. Mr. Pearson who r has been an "ardent cyclist for 37 years, y is still strongly attached to his favourite .» pastime. •He has cycled over a great . portion of the Coramonwealth r his loijg , 5 trips including spins from Sydney, to,' Bris- i bane, and from Sydney to, Melbourne. He ij,; states that he has made the last-named 'j:sk trip, a distance of' 577 miles, 'on .three ' , occasions, and has reduced the time from ; 4 96 to 49 hours. He has travelled up- \f wards of-100,000 miles on the bicycle, a. ; three'geared. machine, that he has broiH't ■ ,to ■ New Zealand, Mr.~ ; :is ±sSp:ss hot ■■unknown in the rowing world, h» .:;-..:,■ having at one time been ■ strokeof the: Sydney Sowing Club's senior.eight.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 6
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174LONG CYCLING TOUR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 6
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