H.B.-P B. Athletic Championships

At the final day of the Hawkes Bay-Poverty Bay Amateur Athletic Championships, held in fine but windy conditions at the Childers Road Reserve, a New Zealand and seven centre records were broken.

The New Zealand record went by the board when Napier's young hammer-throwing expert Darryl Gilliland reached a distance of 179ft 6in.

Gisborne athletes acquitted themselves well by winning both the senior men's and the combined junior men's and ladies' team trophies.

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Darryl Gilliland winds up for his record-breaking throw

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Gisborne junior Alan Saunders effortlessly clears a hurdle in the 3000 metres steeplechase, which he won with ease. Altogether, Saunders claimed four titles.

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Gisborne javelin thrower Stephen Smythe broke his own record

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Napier's Hamish Morrison crosses the line with a supreme effort to break one of the oldest records in the book, the senior 220 yards, which had stood since 1936.