Athletics Meeting

Gisborne, and visiting athletes and cyclists, competed in a half-day meeting at the Childers Road Reserve, organised by the local Amateur Athletics Club.

Highlight of the meeting was a fine tactical mile race by Alan Saunders in which he clipped .3sec off Alan Parkinson's H.B.-P.B. centre record of 4min 13.7sec. Parkinson took second place.

A P.B. record fell when Hasting's Glenys Morley ran a 220 in 25.8 sec.

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Saunders breasts the tape to set a new time for the mile. Behind him is Parkinson.

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Giant Napier hammer-thrower Darryl Gilliland winds up for an attempt on the N.Z. senior record. He was unsuccessful.

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Auckland star Peter Grace leads Geoff Hutchins, J. McRae, and Bill Thompson at the head of the large field of one mile senior cyclists.

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Top centre walker Jim Trowell strides around the track.