WORLD CYCLING TOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 11

WORLD CYCLING TOUR

AN ADVENTUROUS PAIR. v ■ Captain • Bisby, Canadian journalist - and author, formerly of the 7th Canadians. - anil Mr. Percy ;■ Skeyhill/ifofmerlyof, the A.I, arrived at MurwiUumbah, •• . ; last week on,the final scction of the Australian part -of a tour round the world on bicycles. 'They. set out from Montreal in - May, 1920, the conditions being , that they must encircle every' country in the world, visit every, important town, and make their way solely by the sale of a pamphlet which Captain Bisby ha. written. : ' Should they succeed in the undertaking, they will he paid £1000 each by - the United Rovers jf Club,. Canada.- v Captain Bisby, who is a scientist and ! explorer, ' though .- only , 34. t years of age, " has ventured into most of the, outlying places!of. the globe, and it was he. wno first studied the pigmy races . of, Africa scientifically. , < r-5 /".TV; Mr Skeyhill is from Victoria, and is well known on the bicycle-racing tracks <1 of Canada. He * i^a., ; brother of Tom ! Skevhill, - the blind soldier, c poet,;;, and lecturer who took part in the landing at •: OalUnoli. Th« travellers expect to reach Darwin in October.