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Haurongo: Scott, Joseph

'A champion long-distance ped'

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'A champion long-distance ped'

This portrait accompanied an article in the Australian Town and Country Journal on Saturday 21 July 1888. The story opened, 'In presenting a portrait of Joseph Scott we are giving the undoubted best long-distance walker who ever contested in Australia, if not in the world.'

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National Library of Australia

Reference: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71100081

Permission of the National Library of Australia must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jane Thomson. 'Scott, Joseph', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1993, whakahou January 2012. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36130/a-champion-long-distance-ped (accessed 4 June 2026).