SWIMMING.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) SYDNEY, Eeb. 3. Swimming at Bondi in a club event, Jean Cocks, a twelve-year-old school girl, covered 220yds in 2.485, which is an Australian women’s record. ATTEMPT TO SWIM COOK STRAIT. BLENHEIM, Feb. 4. The Auckland swimmer, Ronald John Webster, left Pioton in a launch at 3.30 this morning. He was to land on a North Island beach about 8 a.m. 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 Ponsonhy Swimming Club and twenty years of age. He won the three mile championship n't Dunedin recently.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1928, Page 4
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