NINETY-MILE BEACH
SUITABLE FOR SPEED TESTS. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, April 6. Mr. H. S. Butcher, of Auckland, wellknown in connection with speed record attempts in Now Zealand, says that a few clays ago, while motoring on the Ninety-mile Beach at 50 miles an hour, he wrote without difficulty a description of the track. He sails to-morrow on a Irip abroad, during which he will visit Daytona Beach and tho dried lake bed in Utah, and he intends to see if he can write with the same facility at the same speed there also. He hopes to see Sir Malcolm Campbell and inquire into the possibility of his attempting a speed record in New Zealand.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 9
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