ACROSS COOK STRAIT
IN COLLAPSIBLE CANOE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 12. Following hard upon Miss Coppiestone’s failure to swim Cook Strait, it is announced that Charles Barwell, aged 65, intends, in the immediate future, to essay a crossing in a collapsible canvas canoe, measuring seven feet by three feet two inches. He intends to make the journey alone, although—as he himself says—• if he fs caught in a storm, his chances of swimming will be small. WEBSTER’S ILLNESS. WELLINGTON, February 11. R. J. Webster, the swimmer, of Auckland, who failed on Sunday in his attempt to swim across Wellington harbour, is to enter Wellington Hospital immediately to be operated on for appendicitis.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1929, Page 4
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