LONG TRIP BY CYCLE
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At the age of 71 years, Mr. J. Holmes, Cambridge, has undertaken to cycle from Cambridge to Wellington to see the Prime .Minister, the Hi. Hon. M. J. Savage, regarding his pension. He spent. Friday night, at To Kuiti, after making good time on the 45-mile trip from (.'aptbridge on the first, day. Mr. Holmes served throughout the Boer War, and was wit,li the Border Mounted Police during the Zulu rebellion, and until 1907. During the last war. he was a lieutenant at Trent.ham. and was associated with the National Reserve. Ho anticipates no trouble in reaching Wellington on his bicycle.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 3
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106LONG TRIP BY CYCLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 3
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