This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 20 March 1958, page 12: "The highlight of the North Islands secondary schools' championships was the New Zealand record-breaking 100 yards breaststroke swim by the 13 year old Wanganui Technical College pupil, G. Wallace, who set the new national time of 78.9 sec to break his own junior record set in the New Zealand Championships."
https://dtq0471jmmy9v.cloudfront.net/iiif/2/curtis-production2-cache%2F1%2F1%2F8%2F24678d-4f38-4ecb-8086-0e25767c0f5f%2Fresize_master_a4a1fd6cb3d6e4490a42b267fda78d88.jpg/full/!880,1024/0/default.jpg?sig=32c54bf990eee356c88e8a0a82421bb878967767&ver=1659517156G. Wallace - New Zealand Record-Breaking Swim
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Digitisation ID
- 2017N_2017-20_014682
- Title
- G. Wallace - New Zealand Record-Breaking Swim
- Format
- B&W negative
- Held In
- Coolstore
- License
- contact_us
Creation
- Created By
- Manawatu Evening Standard
- Date
- March 20, 1958
Object rights
- Credit Line
- Fairfax Media New Zealand
- License
- Contact Us For Details
Taxonomy
- Community Tags
- championships,
- swimming,
User comments