SYDNEY HARBOUR SWIM
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SHARKS
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
(Received February 27, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, February 26. A novel swimming exhibition will be provided at Sydney Harbour on Sunday week, when Lily Coppleston*. (New Zealand) and Irene Rolfe, of Bondi, will endeavour to swim from Circular Quay, Sydney, to Manly, about seven miles. They will be protected by bhai flproof nets, thirty feet long, anc twenty-feet wide, and five feet deep, which will be towed by two [ The girls are at present m Gaining, and are confident of success. _ Sharks are usually plentiful in th > harbour at this time of the year.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 7
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