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. TWO RECORDS BROKEN . [by TELEGRAPH— association] J .DUNEDIN, Friday In the one. mile Otago championship event at the Municipal Baths last evening J. O'Driscoll broke the Otago record by covering the distance in 24m 25 l-ss. P. Mnthicson, who won and registered the fastest time in the Zenith Club's mile and a-quarler harbour race on January 13, led by teti yurda For most of the way, but O'Driscoll overtook him in the later stages to win by eight yards. The previous night at Dunedin O'Driscoll broko the Kew Zealand intermediate half-mile record, established in Auckland in 1020 by N. Bacholor. by seven seconds;- his time being 12m 19a.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 9
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