205 MILES IN 20 HOURS BY A ONE-ARMED MAN. During the holidays, Mr Alfred Buxton, janitor at the Albany Street School, who lost an arm seme years ago by a machinery accident and was otherwise badly injured about the body, covered 205 miles on a bicycle in 20 hours. Starting from Gore, he cycled to Invercargill, thence to Riverton, then on to Fairfax, Winton, and Wallacetown, then on to Lumsden and back again by the Waimea Plains road tr> Gore.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3336, 20 February 1918, Page 29 (Supplement)
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80205 MILES IN 20 HOURS BY A ONE-ARMED MAN. During the holidays, Mr Alfred Buxton, janitor at the Albany Street School, who lost an arm seme years ago by a machinery accident and was otherwise badly injured about the body, covered 205 miles on a bicycle in 20 hours. Starting from Gore, he cycled to Invercargill, thence to Riverton, then on to Fairfax, Winton, and Wallacetown, then on to Lumsden and back again by the Waimea Plains road tr> Gore. Otago Witness, Issue 3336, 20 February 1918, Page 29 (Supplement)
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