SCHOOLBOY SWIMMER
Prominent At Gisborne (N.Z Press Association) GISBORNE, Feb. 11. W. O. Penny, who made an attempt to swim Cook Strait on Saturday, was prominent in sporting activities at the Gisborne Boys' High School from 1954 to 1957. Always a prominent swimmer he was runner-up for the senior championship in ISB7. He won the McKeague Cup for the boy who gains the most points in distance swimming. In 1957 he was a member of the school’s Second Rugby XV.
From the age of 15 Penny was a member of the Olvmpic Swimming Club, which he represented in several Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay swimming championships Penny was also a member of the Waikanae Surf Life-sav-ing Club, where he qualified for his surfers medallion He renresented the club at three national surf championships He began work in a Gisborne bank and later moved to Wellington, where he is employed as a clerk in the TAB While in Wellington he has won representative honours in surf swimming and competed frequently in national events. He has swum all the year round in Wellington harbour
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29745, 12 February 1962, Page 12
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