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Catalogue Entries:#100 Home: Haleakala, Honolulu, Oaha Beach : Waikiki, Oaha Competitive Record Olympic medalist swimmer (two gold, one silver), Olympic water polo representative,Swimming Hall of Fame Inductee, First Inductee Surfing magazine's Hall of Fame 1968, Surfer magazine's Surfer of the Century 1999. Surfing waterman,surfer, shaper, canoe paddler, sailor, introduced surfing to Australia, New Zealand and East Coast USA, multiple surf rescues, founder of first surf club, Ambassador of Surfing, Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surf Contest 1968 - 1975? See Duke Kahanamoku in Australia REFERENCES Books Autobiography Kahanamoku, Duke With Brennan, Joe:  Duke Kahanamoku’s World of Surfing Angus and Robertson Publishers Sydney , Australia  1968 2nd Edition  A&R Paperbacks, Sydney , Australia 1972

2. Hall, and Ambrose, : Life With the Duke

General
Note : Duke Kahanamoku's name appears in almost every general surfing book.
Listed are main references.
1. Blake, Tom : Hawaiian Surfboard
Paradise of the Pacific Press, Honolulu, Hawaii  1935
Reprinted as Hawaiian Surfriders 1935
Mountain and Sea Publishing, Box 126 Redondo Beach California 90277. 1983. Pages 51 -58.

2. C. Bede Maxwell : Surf - Australians Against the Sea
Angus and Robertson Sydney  1949  pages 235 - 237.

3. Walter Forbes : The History of the Freshwater Surf Lifesaving Club 1908 - 1958  page 18.
Reprinted in  Myers, K. (Editor): No Lives Lost :
The History of the Freshwater Surf life Saving Club 1908 -1983
Printed by A. Windsor and Son Pty Ltd, 4 James Street, Wateroo. 699 2829. 1983

4. Bloomfield, John :  Know-how in the Surf
Angus and Robertson  89 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 1959.  page 61.

5. Reg S. Harris in Heroes of the Surf – Fifty Years’ History of the Manly Life Saving Club 1961
records the date as '15th February, 1915', pages Fifty-three to Fifty-five.

6. Pollard, Jack (ed.) :  The Australian Surfrider
K.G.Murray Publishing Co.P/L,142 Clarence Street ,  Sydney Australia 1964
Introduction by Duke Kahanamoku page 7, also pages 27 -28 and 55 - 56.

7. Farrelly, Midget. As told to McGregor, Craig :  This Surfing Life
 Rigby Limited, James Place, Adelaide 1965 pages 108 - 111.

8. Hemmings, Fred : Surfing
Grossett and Dunlap, New York
Zokeisha Publications Ltd.  5-1-6 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106.  1977 pages 18 - 20.

9. Warwick, Wayne  A Guide to Surfriding in New Zealand
Second Edition  Viking Sevenseas Ltd  Wellington, New Zealand  1978
Chapter : The Early Days/Introduction of surfriding into New Zealand.

10.Young, Nat ; Photographs by McCausland, Bill:  Nat Young’s Book of Surfing
A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty. Ltd. 53 Myroora Rd, Terry Hills, Sydney.1979 Page 65

11. Wells, Lana: Sunny Memories - Australians at the Seaside
Greenhouse Publications Pty Ltd 385 - 387 Bridge Road, Richmond, Victoria 3126 1982
pages 150 - 152 and 159.

12. Myers, K. (Editor): The History of the Freshwater Surf life Saving Club 1908 -1983
Printed by A. Windsor and Son Pty Ltd, 4 James Street, Wateroo. 699 2829 1983
Chapter by Alf Henderson, page 56.

13. Young, Nat with McGregor, Craig :  The History 0f Surfing
Palm Beach Press, 40 Palm Beach Road,  Palm Beach NSW 2108  1983. page 43 - 47.

14. Barry Galton : Gladiators of the Surf:
The Austalian Surf Life Saving Championships - A History
AH & AW Read Pty Ltd, 2 Aquatic Drive Frenchs Forest NSW 2086 1984 pages 25 - 26.

15. Lueras. Leonard : Surfing - The Ultimate Pleasure
 Workman Publishing 1 West 39 Street New York, NY 10018.1984  pages  71 - 101

16.Young, Nat : Surfing Fundamentals
Palm Beach Press, 40 Ocean Road, Palm Beach NSW 2108 1985 Page 97.
Same text as Nat Young's Book of Surfing, above.

17. Carroll, Nick (editor):  The Next Wave : A Survey of World Surfing
Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers Pty Ltd
4 Eden Park, 31 Waterloo Road, North Ryde NSW 2113 1991. pages 22 - 29.

18. Stell, Marion K. : Pam Burridge
 Collins Angus & Robertson Publishers (Australia) Pty. Limited
 A division of Harper Collins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Limited
 25 Ryde Road, Pymble NSW 2073, Australia. 1992  pages 6 - 8

19. Finney, Ben and Houston, James D. : Surfing – A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport
Pomegranate Books P.O. Box 6099 Rohnert Park, CA 94927 1996 pages 65 - .81

20. Warshaw, Matt :  Surfriders – In Search of the Perfect Wave
Tehabi Books, Inc.  Collins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022.1997 page 19.

21. Kampion, Drew. Forward by Bruce Brown : Stoked : A History of Surf Culture
General Publishing Group Los Angles 1997
Second edition Benedikt Tashen Verlag GmbH, Hohenzollernring 53,D-50672 Koin.1998.pages 37- 43.

22.Thoms, Albie: Surfmovies
The Blue Group  PO Box 321 Noosa Heads Queensland 4567  2000
pages 20 - 23, 31, 43, 45,64 - 65, 69, 88, and 94.

Duke Kahanamoku Statue, Freshwater Beach Headland. Freshwater SLSC. 2007.

"Following the formation of the Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club in November 1921, letters were sent to a number of prominent weekend and permanent residents invititing them to be Vice-Presidents of trhe Club. Amoungst those that accepted the invitation were ... A.I. Hordern."
Brawley: Palm Beach SLSC (1996) pages 12-13.
Note A.I. Hordern should read A.J. Hordern, see page 26.
Alfred James Hordern (1859-19 ) was the father of Alfred Roy Hordern (1892-1935).

"While the house was being built Alf and Carrie lived in a small cottage nearby, and it was here that their first son, Alfred Roy, was born in 1892.
Six years later they had a second son, Bruce Alexander.
These boys were to become the enfants terribles of the family in their time.
Perhaps Carrie devoted more care to the culture of her plants than to her children, who were said to be spoilt and wild and who, together with Lebbeus Hordern, son of Sam, were the legendary scene-stealers of the fourth generation. Roy and Bruce grew up handsome and charming with an exuberance and recklessness which was the antithesis of their father's timidity, and, indeed, of the caution of most of their Hordern cousins.
Roy was among the first of these young Horderns to go on active service in World War I; Bruce followed as soon as he was old enough, and on their return they showed little inclination to settle to the draper's life, or to any other mundane existence.

Roy, in particular, assumed a flamboyant role, and after his death in Perth as the result of a motor-cycle accident in 1935, was described by the West Australian press as an 'extraordinary' and 'picturesque' personality-a man of 'magnificent build... deep-chested' and with a 'rugged he-man sort of handsomeness':

When he came to Perth ten years ago, he quickly made himself conspicuous by his mania for speed in a powerful left-hand steering car which he bought from America, and his huge Alsatian dogs, which accompanied him into city offices and hotels... Dress was another ofHordern's odd whims. Usually he was to be seen wearing an open neck lumber jacket, riding breeches and Canadian lace-up boots. This, in fact, was how he was dressed when he died.
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According to this obituary, there was one aspect of his life in whicli he resembled Sam Hordern's family:

Though he had no special need to work, at odd times he would become infected with the craze for 'raising' live-stock of some kind. Once it was pigs. ..another time he went in for a duck 'ranch' ..."

Roy Horden with his parents Caroline ("Carrie", -1938) Doig and Alfred James Hordern, circa 1925. Horden, Lesley: Children of One Family. The Sory of Anthony and Ann Hordern  and their descendants in Australia 1825-1925. Retford Press, Sydney, 1985, page 219.

AIf's enthusiasm for gardening was not as great as Carrie's, and while the Sydney Morning Herald of 17th August 1932 described him as a 'kindly tree and flower lover', he is said to have sought refuge from the intensity of horticulture at The Highlands in his holiday home, Kalua, at Palm Beach.
This cool, spacious bungalow overlooking the surf became his favourite retreat from domestic pressures and the cares of retailing."

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