FEAT ON SKATES
JOURNEY ROUND EGMONT. ( Pei- Press Absociation. ) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 21. Stanley Mockford, of Tuakau, Auck-i land, on Saturday evening completed his circuit of Mt. Egmont on skates. The journey of over a hundred miles on bitumen roads was covered within four days. He had intended to sleep in sheds or in the open, but people on route took a keen interest in the exploit and provided him with food ami shelter. The difficulty of descending tho steeper hills was solved by the skater securing a heavy pine branch which he straddled and used as a brake.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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99FEAT ON SKATES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 6
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