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MOONLIGHT TOBOGGANING. Peoplo at Buxton, Derbyshire, havo lately revelled in tho thrills of moonlight tobogganing, a joy unknown in tho last ten years. Hotel guests, shop-girls and quarrymon sampled tho novel sport and found it exhilarating. For nearly two hours they were seen" amusing themselves on tho moon-bathed, star-lit Temple slopes, hurtling joyously down the half-mile " run " at 30 and even 40 miles an hour, followed by the steady one-mile-an-hour drag back to the fringe of trees sil houetted against the skyline which marked the start of the thrill. One of the women exponents of the sport said: —"There is absolutely no comparison between tobogganing in daylight and moonlight. At night there is something romantic, even mystic, about it all. " Yon set off into tho semi-darkness with only the faintest idea of tho hazards of tho run and only see the bumps when you aro right on top of them. It is tho greatest fun I havo over .known,"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)
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