NINETY-MILE BEACH.
SURFACE STILL SOFT.
MR. NORMAN SMITH'S PROSPECTS.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] KAITAIA. Monday.
Although the wind continued steady from the south-west throughout to-day there was little improvement in the condition of Ninety-Mile Beach. The wind did not carry the spring tido as far up the beach as had been hoped, with tho result that the surface was still patchy. Several of the larger bumps had been smoothed down, while many thousands of dead toheroas were swept to highwater mark, but the beach remained fairly soft, particularly near the sand dunes whero Mr. Norman Smith intends to run. He is still hopeful that the beach will improve to-morrow to allow him to attack the world's ten kilometres and five miles records on Wednesday, but if tho whole of the course is not ready by then he will probably give the Stewart Enterprise another trial run with the new radiator fitted and screen wiper in action.
If die conditions do not :illo\v Mr. Smith to run by Thursday the officials will again leavo tho beach, as by (lie litnc the lido is low after Thursday it will be too dark to run. In dial event Iho next attempt will probably noL be made until late next month, when spring tides again occur.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21114, 23 February 1932, Page 10
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