SWIMMERS PLAN TO TRY AGAIN

Taupo Times, Volume V, Issue 209, 3 February 1956, Page 6

SWIMMERS PLAN TO TRY AGAIN

In conversation with the Taupo Tiines 011 Monday morning, Miss Margaret Sweeney and Mr Roger McMahon both expressed the hope that they would be able to mahe another attempt later to do the swims they had been forced to abandon the previous day. Referring to the heavy head sea which had compelled Mr MeMahon to give up his attempt, Miss Sweeney said it was surprising to note the number of people who seemed to think that a lake was never rough. The seas on Lake Taupo were much steeper, closer together and difhcult than any sea raised on a salt-water harbour by a similar wind.

Both swimmers expressed their deep appreciation of the generous help given | them by their respective parties, in- 1 cluding the launch owners, rowers, St John Ambulance members, Mrs Storey, the launchmen's radio station operator, and others. These helpers had given up their weekend holiday to enable the swimmers to make their attempts, which needed considerable organisation, and their help was beyond praise. The parties with the swimmers were as follows. Launch Victory (Miss Sweeney), Mrs G. E. Booth and Mrs J. Dutfield (Taupo St John Ambulance Brigade) , Messrs Godfrey Taylor, j Darcy Reid (organiser), A. H. Reid, I V. M. Simpson, Ray Reid, M. Tierney, Fred Mahanga, Kori Rameka, G. R. Reid, I. T. Logan, Peter Prangley, all of Taupo, and Peter Mathison (Taumarunui), Graeme Whitmore (Auckland), Scott Taylor and D. Griffiths (Papatoetoe).

Launch Moanaroa (Mr McMahon s party), Messrs J. D. McLeod, H. Franklin (Taupo St John Ambulance Brigade), Bruce Thompson (Waihi), Bill Hogan (Kaikohe), S. Fraser, Gilbert Arnold (Taupo). Messrs Thompson, Hogan and Fraser are members of the P. and T. Department's construction party at present working on the Taupo Post Office buildings.