WHEN CUPID CALLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 598, 26 February 1929, Page 1

WHEN CUPID CALLS

New Advocate for Harbour Bridge YOUNG MAN’S DARING SWIM Cupid has entered the lists as an advocate for the Harbour Bridge. A Northcote j-outh left his invalid j father alone the other evening to visit; his fiancee, who lives at Mount Eden. The hours sped away as hours spent that way usually do, and, with them, the last boat. Then to the young came the | sudden realisation that his father was j alone, and he had promised to be i home. What was there to be done? j Many wild ideas rushed through his j mind, but, there was only one way— j He’d swim!

Up till that moment the night had seemed warm, but, stripped, and standing on Shelly Beach with a dark stretch of water in front of him there was scope for argument on the question.

Even the fish slept at that early hour of the morning, and the swimmer swears that he was constantly knock ing up against them as they lay just helow the surface of the water. Whatever the obstacles were they helped to add to the uncanniness of the swim. Exhausted and shivering he crawled ashore in the mud at North Shore, but,

even then, his troubles were not over. Over half a mile of a walk awaited him—not over a path but round slippery rocks beneath ledges. In all the darkest patches tins and branches of trees tripped him up. To-day, as he lies in bed recovering from a severe attack of quinsy the early morning swimmer wonders whether being in love is worth while. The girl? Well, it is not every girl who can boast that her fiance is prepared to swim harbours for her.