REMARKABLE FEAT
BALE OF OTAGO WOOL
WHEELED 22 MILES
As the result of an argument following which a wager was made, Mr. Charles Kirby, a young Central Otago man, lately pushed a bale of wool from Litmhiirn station to the Waipinta railway station—a. distance of 22 miles. As a result of a discussion in the woolshod at Linnburn lie was offered a hale of finest merino wool, valued at about £lB, if he could wheel it to the Waipiata. station in time for the next wool sale.
The feat was generally regarded as impossible, but Mr. Kirby decided to make the attempt, and for that purpose lie bad a specially constructed type of wheelbarrow made in Dunedin with a wheel Bin. wide. He started on the journey at 4 a.m. one day, and after five days, during which most of his travelling was done at night, he reached his destination and won the wager. His load weighed nearly Scwt., and the roads over which he travelled included a watercourse that presented considerable difficulty.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19350104.2.95
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18595, 4 January 1935, Page 8
Word Count
173REMARKABLE FEAT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18595, 4 January 1935, Page 8
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in