TO SWIM COOK STRAIT
WEBSTER'S UNHERALDED ATTEMPT * (Pin United Press Association.] BLENHEIM, February 3. The Auckland swimmer, Ronald John Webster, left Picton in a launch at 3.30 this morning. He was to land on a North Island beach at about 8 a.m., and he proposes to attempt to swim to the South Island from this beach, accompanied by a launch containing pressmen and others. Webster is a member of the Ponsonby Swimming Club, and is twenty years of age. He won the three-mile championship at Dunedin recently. [Webster did not win any three-mile championship as stated, but he had the fastest time (Ihr 22min 15sec) in the Annette Kcllerman harbor race over a three-mile course. Cook Strait is sixteen miles wide at its narrowest, ninety miles at its widest. The nearest swimming course would be from a beach near Capo Terawhiti to Arapawa Island, between Queen Charlotte Sound and Tory Channel.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19782, 4 February 1928, Page 11
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151TO SWIM COOK STRAIT Evening Star, Issue 19782, 4 February 1928, Page 11
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