LONG-DISTANCE SWIMMING
MISS COPPLESTONE’S ATTEMPT. Miss j Coppiestone, the long distance swimmer, intends to make a long distance swim down the Waikato River on January 2, starting at Cambridge about; 6 a.m., and has written Miss Mercedes Gleitze asking her to accompany on the attempt. ■-. ' • Miss Gleitze says she feels honoured and would have been glad, but unfortunately would be finished her endurance swim at Wellington about 4 a.m. on January 2, and this - made consideration of the offer impossible. As she ivas under contract it 'was impossible for her to postpone the endurance attempt.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1930, Page 9
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