COOK STRAIT SWIM.
MISS COPPLESTONE’S ATTEMPT.
(Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, January 26. Miss Lily Coppiestone will travel overland from Ashburton to Picton on Tuesday or Wednesday next. She will await there a favourable opportunity to set out on her swim across Cook Strait. Mr. W. Thoms, of Te Awaite, of a well-known whaling family, will accompany Miss Coppiestone in a dinghy, and will be her chief adviser. Miss Coppiestone probably will try but a number of starting points, and will be guided by those in her ultimate choice.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 January 1929, Page 10
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