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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 17

An Auckland resident, whose occupation confines him to the narrow limits of the space behind his counter, is the proud possessor of a pedometer, with which he measures the distance he covers each day (relates the Star). To his amazement he discovered that the pedometer registers 17 miles a week, which is 884 miles per year. As he lives close to his work—not more than two minutes’ walk—and does not go home for lunch, 90 per cent, of the 17 miles is walked behind the counter, because he is a man who takes little or no exercise. The average man walks probably 51 miles a week, and those 'in active occupations perhaps well over 100 miles. On that reckoning, the average man, doing 51 miles each week, would walk 172,380 miles in 65 years, or, in other words a distance equivalent to about seven times round the world!