SWIMMING
A LONG SWIM. 12 MILES IN THREE HOURS. Dargaville. March 25. A long swim was undertaken on Bunday by C. Dudley, a member of the Whangarei Swimming Club, when he swarti from the Tangowahine wharf to Dargaville wharf, on the Northern Wairoa river, a distance of about 12 miles. Dudley entered the water at Tangowahine at 12.51, and completed the first mile in 16 minutes, and arrived at Dargaville at 3.53 p.m,, having averaged four miles per hdur, swimming with the tide, which flows fairly fast.
The water was calm for the first two miles, but for the rest of the journey the swimmer encountered very choppy water especially over the last mile, when the water also became very cold and made swimming fairly difficult. The swimmer, however, finished fairly strong ami said that he could have continued further should ho have so desired. The conditions with the tide running out were, however, all in favour of the swimmer, but the performance is quite a good one and one of the longest ever successfully undertaken in the Dominion.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 83, 26 March 1929, Page 3
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