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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 7

A games mistress at a' girls’ secondary school is seldom at a loss to find new obstacles at sports meeting for the obstacle races. "If seems to be a rule among those who arrange programmes that the obstacle race must be an entirely new one every year. At the Avonside Girls’ High School, Christchurch, there was a race in which competitors started off by running three-legged, then walked for some distance very awkwardly on treacle tins, and finished the race balancing the tins on their heads ns | they ran. At another girls’ sports meeting this season the competitors in ' an obstacle race had to find thuir own shoes and stockings out of a big sack full of dozens of shoes and stockings before they could begin to rufi find later had to blow up paper bags and bursfc them.