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SHARK UPSETS PLANS

BOY ABANDONS GROSS-HARBOR SWIM [Special to the ‘ Stab.’] AUCKLAND, February 20. Fired with the desire to emulate harbor swimmers, a schoolboy _ sot out yesterday on an attempt to swim from Northcote to Bnyswatcr, across the Bay. He started with a free over-arm stroke, and was making good time, with a promise of completing the journey without distress, when he made a fatal glance to tho rear. A shark was cruising along leisurely in the calm blue green water evidently following the same course as himself, the first inspiration was to abandon the swim; the second to get out of the water at the earliest opportuntiy. With a turn of speed that would have done him credit m a college championship, he made by tho shortlest line for tho dinghy that was following.

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Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 9

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135

SHARK UPSETS PLANS Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 9

SHARK UPSETS PLANS Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 9

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