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The Telegraph
Brisbane, 6 January 1931, page 9.

SURF SWIMMING

Display at Currumbin Beach

COOLANGATTA

A display of surf board riding was given by C. G. Englert and R. Noonan, of Tweed Heads, but the surf was unsuitable and both swimmers were" dumped," much to the delight of the crowd.

Trove

1931 'SURF SWIMMING', The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), 6 January, p. 9. (FIRST EDITION), viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188256682

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus
9 January 1931, page 15.

People with surf boards.are requested them outsfote

liig ar^a* that Is, outside the flagis.

® Complaints have bached the com-1

jpittee regarding thfe use of'bad

Slanguage on the beach. Remember

jt&fcre are others Resides yourselves

K-n the Tseach. This will have to be

Bmt «ut» » * ^

1931 'Notes From Surf Clubs.', South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus (NSW : 1900 - 1954), 9 January, p. 15. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142617701

The Sun
Sydney, 18 January 1931, page 5.

SURF THRILL
NEW CORK BOARD
GIRL INVENTOR

"I FELT so sorry for our soldiers putting on lifebelts and jumping into the sea.
A lifebelt leaves so much of one dangling through for one sharks to nibble at."
This was Miss Lavie C. Taylor's explanation of why, 16 years ago, at the age of eight, she invented the super-surfboard.
She says that she was playing games, and brooding over the report of a sunken troop ship.
Lifebelts seemed very inadequate, and so she invented the one-man lifeboat, which has developed into a surfboard.
With corks strung together, and oddments she picked up, she made a 12-inch model of her idea, and her mother, Mrs. Farrell (formerly Mrs. Taylor, of Gurner street, Paddington), had it patented.
It Is like an ordinary surfboard, made of compressed cork, with outriggers on each side.

In the Family

Under the outriggers are scoops, hinged so that, when the hands and feet of the surfboard rider drive the outriggers back, the scoops catch the water and drive the craft forward.

With the forward movement of the outriggers, the scoops flap back, offering a minimum of resistance.
It is claimed that a speed of eight to 10 miles an hour can be attained.
Miss Taylor inherits her inventiveness from her mother, who gets her most brilliant inspirations in her sleep.
The mother's inventions include a patent boneless corset, a bullet-and-machine-gun-proof shield (patented during the war), a button which does not require sewing on, but is snapped into place, and a lamp which could project a powerful light without leaving any tell tale beam.

Mrs. Farrell does not like Manx cats.
One day she turned the light on a neighbor's Manx cat, and. with its aid saw through its skin and flesh.
I could see its heart beating, and its digestive organs," she says.
The cat died peacefully next day.

Trove
1931 'SURF THRILL', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 18 January, p. 5. , viewed 08 Apr 2019,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224675469

Evening News
Sydney, 22 January 1931, page 2.

SURF CLUBS GOSSIP

...
At North Bondi Bert Veitch was welcomed back on Sunday after a two months' holiday at Stanwcll Park.

He was sadly missed with his surf board during the vacation.\

Trove

1931 'SURF CLUBS GOSSIP', Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), 22 January, p. 2. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115407995

Geraldton Guardian and Express
WA, 22 January 1931, page 2.

SWIMMING AND SURFING

...
I noticed at the Back Beach last Sunday Mr. Preston's 'goliath' surf board giving a new form of thrill to surf riders.
Other thrilling stunts are expected to be staged shortly.

Trove
1931 'SWIMMING AND SURFING', Geraldton Guardian and Express (WA : 1929 - 1947), 22 January, p. 2. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67247378

The West Australian
Perth, Monday 26 January 1931, page 6.


BROADCAST PROGRAMMES.
6WF
....
7.58- Introduction by Mr. Basil Kirke, of Mr. C. D. Paterson, president of the New South Wales Surf Life Saving Association, who will broadcast greetings to the North Coltesloe Surf Life Saving and Athletic Club from Manly, New South Wales, via trans-continental telephone service.

Trove
1931 'BROADCAST PROGRAMMES.', The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), 26 January, p. 6, viewed 2 September, 2013,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33251057

GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES

300 People Thrown on to

Sand.

WATCHING IjEE-SA VERS.

SVDNEY, Monday,-Sovcral thous
and pooplo who woro watching life
savers compoting; in a surf race at tho
Freshwater carnival to-day rushod to
tho aid of 300 mon, women and chil
dren who woro thrown on to the sand
when tho supports of tho grandstand
collapsed. '

Tho club-house was converted into
a casualty station to treat tho injured,
tho majority of whom wore suffering
from shock. Two wero admitted to
hospital. Surf boards wero usod as
stretchers. Thrco doctors, who woro
watching tho events, treated tho in
 

jured.

1931 'GRANDSTAND COLLAPSES', Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), 27 January, p. 5. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67699042

Sydney Mail
Wednesday 28 January 1931, page 24.

Canoeing in the Surf at Bondi.

The fascination of guiding a frail craft through the surf and riding back to the beach on the top of a roller is even greater than surf -board riding.
It is increasing in popularity every season.

Trove
1931 'Anniversary Regatta, Lawn Tennis, Surf-Canoeing', Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), 28 January, p. 24. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159791186

The Daily News
Perth, Friday 30 January 1931, p. 2

NOW BRING ON YOUR DEPRESSION

Youth and beauty and both thrill to the exhilaration of
surf boarding at Scarborough.

Trove
1931 'RACKETEERING—AN OLD GAME', The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950), 30 January, p. 2. (HOME (FINAL) EDITION), viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83494442

R. Rowe wrote objecting tp Mr. C.

Dalton being permitted to trade with

surf boards, and sunburn creams at

; the life-savers' building, Main Beach,

which place was not registered as a

- . shop. It was pointed out that the

? council had informed the writer that

no permits. 'were being granted for the ?

beach trading. — Received.
1931 'SOUTHPORT TOWN COUNCIL', South Coast Bulletin (Southport, Qld. : 1929 - 1954), 30 January, p. 2. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133666995

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate
31 January 1931, page 5.

SURF CLUB SPLASHES

...
The committee of the Taree-Old Bar Surf Club are determined, this year, to make their annual carnival bigger and brighter than ever.

With the motto 'every minute a thrill,they aim to give the Manning public a treat at their beach on Sunday, February 22nd,

We learn that teams from Newcastle to Yamba have been invited and special efforts are being made to get a surf board expert from the Newcastle Association to give a display at shooting the breakers in the true Hawaiian style.

Trove
1931 'SURF CLUB SPLASHES.', The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate (NSW : 1882 - 1950), 31 January, p. 5. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105963001

The Newcastle Sun
Tuesday 3 February 1931, page 3.

Newcastle Surf Carnival

...
For the surf board exhibition 24 have entered, most of the entries being from Sydney clubs.

Trove
1931 'Nearly 700 of State's Best Swimmers to Compete at Newcastle Surf Carnival', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 3 February, p. 3. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164328524

Table Talk
Melbourne, Thursday, 5 February 1931, page 12.

Great Days at Lorne- Some Holiday Snaps

...

Mr. Pratt gives Joan an idea of how to hold a surf board.

Trove

1931 'Great Days at Lorne—Some Holiday Snaps', Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939), 5 February, p. 12. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146707997

S Importers, 1 cs rubber surf

boards, 1 cs rubber bands .... America

1931 'IMPORT ENTRIES PASSED AT HIS MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS.', Daily Commercial News and Shipping List (Sydney, NSW : 1891 - 1954), 6 February, p. 6. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160586876

CHILDREN'S COURT. PERTH.

(Friday.— Before Mr. F. F. Horgan, S.M.)

Scarborough Surf -Boards. — Four lads were
convicted of having stolen four surf
              boards, valued
at £2/10/, from Edward Barrett, at
              Scarborough
Beach, on Januarv 18. and another boy of
              hav

ing been in unlawful possession of a surf board,

on January 25. They were each placed on pro

bation for 12 months. The turf boards were

ordered to be returned to the owner.

1931 'CHILDREN'S COURT, PERTH.', The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), 7 February, p. 11. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33250050

The Newcastle Sun
11 February 1931, p. 2

19 Clubs to Compete at Newcastle Surf Carnival

...
The obstacle race, which will have 11 competitors, should supply the fun of the afternoon, and the surf board exhibition, which always gives the public plenty of thrills, will have 21 surf board exponents, including S. Lorking (Coogee), who won this event last season, R. Chequer (Collaroy), A. Laidlaw (North Bondi) ,Norm Welbe (Merewether), H. Scott (Newcastle), and E. Lambert (North Bondi).

Trove

1931 '19 Clubs to Compete at Newcastle Surf Carnival', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 11 February, p. 2. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164322797

Two rescues on the beach deserve

mention — by B. Lane assisted by P.

Corrigan, Clnb members, and another

by a visitor on a surf board. In the

first, P. Corrigan received injury to his

knee, through being pushed over by

the public in their excitement. — C. B.

Tucker, Publicity Officer.

1931 'Ocean Beach Surf Club', The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate (NSW : 1906 - 1954), 12 February, p. 12. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163887448

C. A. Dalton applied for permission ?

to hire out surf boards on. Main Beach.

—Permission granted' on the motion of

.Aid. Wilson and Andrews.

1931 'SOUTHPORT TOWN COUNCIL', South Coast Bulletin (Southport, Qld. : 1929 - 1954), 13 February, p. 2. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133663393

The Newcastle Sun
Saturday, 14 February 1931, page 5.

Surf Boats Thrill Big Crowd
Newcastle Carnival

Surf board exponents gave spectacular displays In the special exhibit.

The surf, however, was not strong' enough to provide any thrills.
...

SURF BOARD EXHIBITION

C. J. McAlister (Manly) 1

F. Boorman (North Bondi) 2

R. Michealis (Cronulla) 3

Trove
1931 'Surf Boats Thrill Big Crowd', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 14 February, p. 5. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164324047

DANGEROUS USE OF SURF

BOARDS

During the holiday periods the mem
bers of the Mowbray Park Surf Life
saving Club, who patrol the whole of
Bureigh beach, mad.e it a point to
strictly enforce the regulations deal

ing with the use of surf boards, especi
ally in the surfing area between the
flags, and it is to their credit that
no accident occurred. As Burleigh
beach has become very popular and. is
regarded by the surfing fraternity as
.'.-? one of the safest bathing spots m the
South Coast, and it is hoped the
Nerang Council will erect a prominent
notice relative to the use of ' surf
boards, as it may deter surf board
users from indulging in their pastime
to the danger of others,, especially
during the slack period when no one
in authority is present to supervise
and isolate them from other bathers.

            

            1931 'DANGEROUS USE OF SURF BOARDS', South Coast
              Bulletin (Southport, Qld. : 1929 - 1954), 27 February,
            p. 7. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
            http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133658484

          

Referee
Sydney, Wednesday, 4 March 1931, page 12.

NOW I REMEMBER \

(By J. G. nAVIS)'--......1...

DUKE KAHANAMOKU

As a Surfing Blondin

Surf-board
            riding is a fascinating diversion these days on most of the
            ocean beaches north and south of Port Jackson, but not so
            many years ago it
 
was an isolated sort of sport, with the
            manipulators of the board
            novices in their actions and control compared with the
            bird-like proclivities of
 
many who now skim the waves with the grace
            of swallows.

Just sixteen years ago Duke Kahanamoku, the
            brilliant and picturesque; Hawaiian, at the time the fastest
            swimmer In the world over the shorter distances, thrilled
            thousands in an exhibition out here.
 
Cecil Healy, one of. the greatest swimmers
            of all time developed by Australia, told the story of this
            exhibition for 'The Referee.' 
 
Young swimmers to-day who get their thrills
            and exhilaration from
 
-lin eiii'f wtlrVnaH Pnnil'c HpRfri nt inn
            nf'

the Duke's exploits and the
impression: It made on those
present 'with some curiosity
and pleasure: ?
''The great majority of pro
minent swimmers are now
?connected- with surfing- bodies
(wrote the Olympic star swim
mer, who used a graphic pen
in his 'Referee' stories), and
a number seized the opportun
ity of taking part in the Dee
' why. Life Saving Club's carni
val, In order to witness Kalia
namoku's first and last pub
lic exhibition of , surf-board j
riding. The crowd which put

Uuku Kahunumoku

in an appearance, exceeded any that had
ever, previously congregated at this out
of-the-way resort. In view of the dis
trict being only sparsely populated as
yet, and its comparative inaccessability,
, the local organisation showed great en
terprise and initiative In shouldering the
financial responsibilities necessary to
secure the' Duke as an attraction.
'At the. time the Hawaiian put out to
sea with his surf-board,
            . which he seems
-to worship almost as much -as a child
??.. its doll, the waves unfortunately, were
.not particularly good for shooting pur
? poses, merely :ah occasional one having
any length of run. The rapidity with
-which he took the weighty plank out
through the breakers was not the least
.amazing feature of the display. Ho lay
outstretched .upon it, and -used his
hands as paddles, one on either side. ?
'It struck me, as. I watched him pro-:,
pel: himself- along in this fashion; ,.hi
finitely faster, than any of our 'experf
surfers
            could move unencumbered,-'that
. he;,must be ': able '?? to';' exert;
            tremendous
power with, those arms of Vlils.'-'.'
            There-;
in is probably, to be found the explana
tion of his extraordinary capabilities as

a sprint swimmer, rather than his. pecu-
liar method of kicking.
'On sighting a likely-looking wave ho
commenced to . paddle vigorously, still
lying prone as before. After a few in
effectual attempts he succeeded hi
catching one properly. Instantly the'
board seemed
            to leap forward liko a
fiery steed when tho spurs are driven
into the rowels. Immediately after the
Duke rose upright, and assumed , tho
attitude of ancient chariot drivers. And

no sooner Had lie done so than
he seemed to exercise some
subtle influence over the mad
ly careering craft; in fact, just
las if he had taken reins in
hand. He altered its direction
so as to steer a course diag
onal to the beach.
'Although the prow ''pranced
and bounded over tho crest of
the onrushing billow, the Duke
stood like an ebony statue, im
movable save for the dtift
movements of his feet, and
remained so till within a few
yards of the shore,' when he
leisurely dropped off. It was a

thrilling sight to watch and such bal
ancing skill and dexterity entitles him
to the designation of a surfing Blondin.
'A young lady acquaintance ' then
emerged and , accompanied the Puke
seawards. It occurred to me at once
that if the Duke found it dtmcult to
get going by himself, with the notby
any-means good waves at his disposal,
obviously his chances of doing so would
be greatly minimised, when hindered by
a novice. Such proved to bo tho case.
A considerable time elapsed before he
managed to get a move on with his
partner. It must bo admitted, however,
that the dual shoot, when it did come1
off, was the more sensational. spectacle'
of the two while it lasted.
1 'It served to show more conspicuous
ly- the Duke's wonderful facility for
maintalninghis equilibrium under these
exacting conditions, as, although his
passenger, was toppling backwards ovor
the latter part of their journey, the
extra burden failed to. dislodge- him un
til they, had negotiated,; about three
parts of the distanco he-covered whon
alone.'

            Trove

            1931 'NOW I REMEMBER', Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 -
              1939), 4 March, p. 12. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,

            http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136740827





            

            

The Queenslander
Brisbane, Thursday 2 April 1931, page 37.

THE SURF DOG.
This dog, well known on Coolangatta beaches,
delights in riding the breakers on a surf-board.

The Newcastle Sun
Saturday, 4 July 1931, page 6.

BOARDS FOR RESCUES:

Surf Association Consider

Next surfing season distressed bathers may be seen being brought swiftly to shore per medium of the surf board.

Surf boards are banned by councils at some beaches, but the Surf Life Saving Association is at present considering ihe question of the utility of the board as an official form of apparatus for rescue purposes.

Board experts with ideas on the subject are invited lo send their views to the Association.

After several years experimenting

[Photograph: Mr. C. D. Paterson, president of the Association.]

it looks as if a new surf belt has been evolved.

Mr. N. Hayton, captain of Coogee, submitted the idea of a metal hoop, woven into the belt and so sprung as to keep the belt clamped in position

By a special contrivance the belt is able to easily release.

Trove
1931 'BOARDS FOR RESCUES.', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 4 July, p. 6. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164242195

The Sun
Sydney, Wednesday, 23 September 1931, page 9.

ON BOARDS
Increase Danger?
SURF RESCUES

Now that the Surf Life Saving Association has given official approval of surf boards as a means of rescue,lifesaving events with boards will probably be held at surf carnivals.
There is sure to be an increase in the number of boards used, and no doubt a consequent increase of danger to bathers.

While on the chief beaches, board "shooters" are not permitted to use the ordinary bathing area, the rule is often broken to the danger of other bathers.
It should be the duty of councils to insist on the strict adherence of beach regulations regarding boards, otherwise there are likely to be still more accidents.

Trove
1931 'How the Favorite Lost', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 23 September, p. 9. (LAST RACE EDITION), viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223675018

Increase use of surf boards
may constitute greater
danger at the
beaches.

Truth
Sydney, 27 September 1931, page 7.

SURF SPECIAL

SURF BOARD RESCUES

Good! But Ordinarily Boards Menace Bathers

FOOLHARDY antics
                      of surf board
                      riders on crowded beaches have been a constant
                      source of danger to the surfers
                      who don't aspire to the thrills of the
 
 
Hawaiian art,
                      and now that the boards are to become a real
                      life saving appliance it behoves officials to see
                      that the riders are not allowed to be a pest on
                      that account.

During the winter that busy band of workers for tbe public good, the Surf Association, has realised the extreme value of the surf-board in the art of saving life

Last season there were several wonderful rescues by board, and they so impressed the heads that they have been hard at work devising schemes to best

handle the patient out at sea on the board, and from that very work has grown a new item for surf carnivals; a surf board rescue race.

It is not the intention of the new idea to allow rescuers on surf boards to bring off spectacular rescues by riding the waves to the beach with

[Photograph: MR. JOHN GARLICK - One of the pillars of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia.]

the patient as passenger, but with the 'safety first' motto always before them to hold the patient outside the waves until certain rescue is afforded by boat or line.

The biggest thing of the lot, however, will be the value of the board in that bugbear of the life-saver, the weed.

Lives have been lost -through tons of weeds sending the rescuers to the bottom, but the board can cope with that pest, and ,f.om that point of view alone

it will be worth its weight in gold.

Yet with all this new boost for the boards It may be that some of our riders may imagine that, with their added importance in the scheme of things, they have a right to overdo it.

Surf boards have no right within coo-ee of the rest of the bathers, but at times the relegation of boards to the less popular parts of the beaches has been defied, with the result that the ordinary surfer has suffered.

The thoughtful surf board man recognises the danger he presents when close to other surfers, and keeps away, but the foolhardy exponent is always with us, and if he is not checked bright and early then heaven help our beaches!

Trove

1931 'SURF SPECIAL.', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 27 September, p. 7. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169129834

Western Mail
Perth, Thursday 15 October 1931, page 19.

SURFING.
PIONEER OF BEACH BATHING.
Death of Mr. Phil. Goatcher.
(By "Dumper.")

[photograph]
The late Mr. Phil Goatcher.

Mr. Phil Goatcher (sic), who died in Perth last week, was best known generally as a scene-painter; but to surfers throughout Australia his death bears a much deeper significance, for he was virtually the founder in New South Wales of beach bathing as we know it to-day.
Nearly 30 years ago he defied the absurd restrictions imposed by the prudishness of the day, and ultimately caused their abandonment.
The story is told by Mr. Basil Kirke, manager of 6WF , and James Goatcher confirms its central character as his late father.
At the time, Mr. Kirke was a small Sydney boy, and a keen swimmer, and took an active personal interest in the matter.

It appears that early in this century, bathing regulations at Manly, Sydney's leading beach, were inconceivably strict.
Apart from the definition of costumes, it was not permitted, in the interests of "public decency," to bathe at all between early morning and a certain hour in the evening.
Mr. Kirke gives a lively picture of an Irish sergeant of police, noisily officious, as he ordered the unwilling bathers from the water at 8 o'clock in the morning.
Many keen swimmers went further afield, and swam during the daytime in secluded but less suitable spots; but there were some, and among them Mr. Phil Goatcher, who found the regulations intolerable.

Finally, Mr. Goatcher. encouraged by wagers with several of his friends, decided to take action, and. accordingly he stated in two newspapers- the "Sunday Times" and the "Northern Suburbs Weekly" that at a certain hour in the afternoon he would bathe at Manly Beach.
He kept his word, and, rather than outrage the feelings of the hundreds who came to watch, went in with his trousers on.
He was duly hauled before the Police Court and fined £3.
But his spirit was not quenched, and on the following Sunday he again announced his intention of bathing at Manly during prohibited hours.
An even bigger crowd gathered, and Mr. Goatcher did not let them down.
He was again prosecuted, but public opinion was so strongly in his favour and so much against the restrictions which he had adopted such effective means of fighting that their withdrawal followed.

In these days it is difficult to conceive the prohibition of bathing in the hottest hours of the day, but there most certainly was such a prohibition, and it was rigidly enforced.
For the more satisfactory state of affairs to-day, we must thank common sense and Mr. Phil. Goatcher.

Trove
1931 'SURFING. PIONEER OF BEACH BATHING.', Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), 15 October, p. 19, viewed 2 September, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38526555

The Daily News
Perth, WA, Saturday 14 November 1931, page 4.

SPIRIT OF THE SURF.

Surf-board champions speed on the crest of the long white
combers with the ease and grace of dolphins.

Trove
1931 'SPIRIT OF THE SURF.', The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1950), 14 November, p. 4 Edition: HOME (SEMI-FINAL) EDITION, viewed 1 March, 2013,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83695661

The Newcastle Sun
Wednesday, 2 December 1931, page 2.

Surf carnival crowds can expect some thrills at Nobbys carnival on Boxing Day.

The club has included a surf-board rescue race on the programme.

Trove
1931 'No title', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 2 December, p. 2. , viewed 13 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164256186

Truth
Sydney, Sunday, 13 December 1931, page 9.

THRILLS & SPILLS IN HEAVY SEAS AT STEYNE

...

Very Fast

Another of the smaller clubs won a first prize when Tom Guthrie, of Palm Beach. surf-boarded cobber 'Pete' Hunter to victory in the first Surf Board Rescue Event held.

This was a most interesting contest, and the pace with which the boards were urged through the heavy seas to the patients at the buoys was an eye opener.

It certainly showed beltmen a point or two in speed.

Surfboard Rescue Event: T. Guthrie and K. Hunter (Palm Beach). 1.

Trove

1931 'Rings Run Round Empire Champion Ryan in Rough Race', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 13 December, p. 9. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169123631

Western Mail
Perth, 17 December 1931, page 23.

SURF LIFESAVING,

SURF BOARDS AT SCARBOROUGH.

Need for Restrictive Measures.

(By "Dumper.")

Complaints are frequently made to me concerning the danger of the indiscriminate use of surf boards on all parts of the beach at Scarborough, and for those who prefer to swim without boards there is certainly some cause for discontent.

Although serious injuries are few, there can be no doubt that minor abrasions are frequently caused by the boards, and innocent bathers might easily be crippled, or even killed, by a particularly nasty crack.

It must be
                        remembered, however, that
                          board-surfers are now in a large
                        majority at the beach and that, consequently,
                        their interest must be considered second only to
                        that of public safety. 
"Stop the
                            boards,
                            stop the beach." said the secretary of the
                            Scarborough Surf Club (Mr. D.
                            G.White) when the matter was referred to him
                            yesterday, and unquestionably the club would
                            be foolish îu the extreme to pass
                            regulations which inconvenienced most of
                            those who used its beach.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Board
                        surfers
                        are now too numerous to be given a small part of
                        the beach to themselves, and made to stay in it,
                        but an alternative proposal is to reverse
 
the process,
                        and to define an area to be used only by those
                        who do not carry

HAROLD BOYS : Vice-captain and chief patrol officer of the North Cottesloe Surf Llfe-Saving Club,
he organised the club's inter-patrol carnival on Sunday.

boards.

                      In this connection, I understand that there is a
                      move afoot in the club to reserve the lower beach
                      for boardless
                      bathers.
 

This part of
                      Scarborough is calmer than the rest, but only a
                      little calmer, and the minority of the beach's
                      patrons cauuot expect the best of everything.

Board-surfers,
                      however, should exercise reasonable caution,
                      remembering that at any time their boards
                      might become dangerous weapons.
 
A practice which
                      has sprung up of throwing the board
                      over an incoming wave, instead of diving with it,
                      should be stopped. 

                    
 

Trove

1931 'SURF LIFE-SAVING. SURF BOARDS AT SCARBOROUGH.', Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), 17 December, p. 23. , viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44789207

The Telegraph
Brisbane, Saturday 26 December 1931, page 9.

WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SEEING?'

...

Gaily painted Surf Boards, harmonising with the bright Hues of Costumes, Dressing Gowns, and Towels, become part of the great Kaleidoscope of the Popular Beaches in "the Season."

Trove
1931 'WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SEEING?', The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), 26 December, p. 9. (SPORTS FINAL), viewed 13 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article183340282

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