GOOD TIME MADE IN HARBOUR SWIM
CLARIDGE GETS ACROSS. Press Association—Copyright. WELLINGTON, This Day. Claridgo was to have started! his swim across the harbour, a distance calculated' at seven miles at |10.3(i a.m.. yesterday, but owing to choppy} water postponed it to 12.14. A fresh northerly jwas blowing i'biri at whilxtf but dropped. 1 when he was midway and then got up again in the last stages.. Aided by his pacers, Clar_ idge stuck to his Work changing hla stroke once and reached Rona Bay at 3.29, This is considered very good! time for the distance. He showed no signs of fatigue at the end*.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 61, 18 March 1929, Page 5
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