GO-CART DERBY
FEAT BY TWO WOMEN UNDETERRED BY RIDICULE (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 22. Reviving the wheelbarrow contests that were popular a few years kgo, two young Wellington women, who declined to disclose their identity, took turns at pushing each other in a homemade go-cart from Berhampore to Wellington Railway Station last night. Not deterred by the ridicule of the picture theatre crowd in Newtown and the frailty of their go-cart, which collapsed near the Basin Reserve, but was hastily patched up, they carried on gamely to the finish, where they were given £3 each by a man friend, who had wagered that they could not see the venture through. Near the General Post Office they were held up by a sergeant Of police, who. entering into the spirit of the content, sent them on their course.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23690, 23 December 1938, Page 6
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139GO-CART DERBY Otago Daily Times, Issue 23690, 23 December 1938, Page 6
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