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Highlight of the athletic meeting held at the Chiders Road Reserve during the holidays was an exhibition mile walk by the Olympic gold medallist, Norman Read. Norman apparently resolved to give a true exhibition of the form he showed at Melbourne, even though it might have seemed to him, after the big games, something in the nature of a "country mile".

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The world's champion road-walker gave it all he had and recorded the second-best mile he had ever done on grass. Time, 6min 55.5sec. It was a flawless performance, and it earned a big hand from the crowd.
It also earned for Norman the inevitable task of signing autographs (above), and when that was done we lined up the Olympic champion with the Mayor, Mr H. H. Barker, and another famous wearer of the coveted fernleaf, All Black Richard White.

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Alan Parkinson, local runner who in this race put up a grand performance, is seen leading Halberg into the last lap of the mile.

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Halberg breasting the tape, with Parkinson a few yards back.

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Valerie Sloper is a slim young amazon who can pack tremendous energy behind a discus or a heavy metal ball. She put the shot 45ft 10in at Gisborne, and later at Napier beat her own record. Here she is seen in graceful pose as she prepares to throw. and in the other two pictures she turns into a powerhouse of released energy as she sends the shot hurtling through the air.

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Roy Williams, of Auckland, brother of the famous Yvette, winning the broad jump.

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Maurice Cossey, brother of the P.B. Rep. footballer Mick Cossey, just failed to beat the N.Z. junior shot-put record.

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Maurice Roderick, Gisborne, who won the senior hammer throw.

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Ross Williams in the pole vault. Supervising are Peter Scott and Doug Hamilton.

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Officials on the job. Left to right they are R. J. Quinn (sports manager), and judges F. W. Dobbie, T. Leslie, D. Jones, C. Parkinson, C. Read, and recorder Jocelyn Dobbie. (Miss Dobbie, by the way, has now left N.A.C. Gisborne to work with N.A.C. Wellington).

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Wairoa cyclists in one of the wheel races

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M. Redstone (Kawarau) winning the 100yds from M. Read, (right), K. Bullen (left) and J. McLoughlin.