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The Courier-Mail
Brisbane,  1 January 1934, page 3.

SUNSHINE AND SURF
Crowds At Beaches
BEST WEATHER OF HOLIDAY
...
Coolangatta Beaches Thronged
COOLANGATTA, December 31.
After a week of most unpleasantweather, combining wind and rain, to-day broke gloriously fine.
The
popular surfing beaches at Greenmount and Kirra were thronged all day and although the heavy surf which was running on Saturday had moderated considerably, it still had sufficient "kick" in it to provide plenty of enjoyment.
,
Splendid exhibitions of shooting the breakers were given by the "Duke" surf board experts, as well as with and without the small boards, while numerous canoes appeared in the surf.
...
SWEPT ON ROCKS.
On Saturday, by contrast, a very heavy sea was running on the Tweed Heads bar, and a strong surf on the various beaches.
Aided by the high tide the strong sweep carried bathers hither and thither like corks, and the beach patrols had to exercise great
vigilance.
An unbroken line-of breakers surged from Schnapper Rocks across Greenmount Bay to Kirra Point, thus providing excellent surf for strong swimmers on both Greenmount and Kirra Beaches.
The strong sweep, however, swirled in around Greenmount and Kirra Points, and the force of the waves washed bathers on to the rocks, a number being subsequently treated by the ambulance for minor bruises and cuts.

Trove
1934 'SUNSHINE AND SURF', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 1 January, p. 3. , viewed 02 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1156129


The Courier-Mail
Brisbane,  1 January 1934, page 3.

BIG PROGRAMME
GOVERNOR'S SURF CARNIVAL
COOLANGATTA, December 31.
At a meeting of the committee of management arrangements were completed for the Governor's surf carnival, which will be held at Coolangatta on Sunday next.
At least 11 teams of men and two of women will take part In the march past and other carnival events, Including two teams from New South Wales, and a number oí individual competitors from that State also.
The whole of the surf clubs associated with the movement will form a guard of honour for the vlce-regal party, and will
engage in a spectacular march past and a combined surf rescue event.
Lady
life-savera will give a display of the methods of the Royal Life Saving Society.
Large entries have been received for the senior and junior suri races, the entrants including the State champions and leading New South Wales surf swimmers.
Other interesting events will be a surf boat race, canoe race, surf board display, and a chariot race.
If big surf is
running the big "Duke" surf board experts are expected to give a thrilling display, efficiency in this branch of surfing having advanced rapidly during the past season or two.

Trove
1934 'BIG PROGRAMME', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 1 January, p. 13. , viewed 02 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1156063


The West Australian
Perth,  2 January 1934, page 4.

THE HOLIDAY.
Beaches and All Sports Very Popular.
...
At Scarborough surf boards seemed even more in evidence than usual.
The beaches of the Swan had their full quota of visitors, more particularly family parties.
Today many will awaken sore and sorry, but yesterday nobody had any thought of the morrow.

Trove
1934 'THE HOLIDAY.', The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), 2 January, p. 4. , viewed 02 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32781873

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
3 January 1934, page 9.

NEWCASTLE SURF CLUB
...
TAREE OLD BAR CARNIVAL.

Arrangements are well in hand for the Taree Old Bar carnival on January 14.
Four cars will leave on Friday night and three on Saturday morning, and a motor-lorry will leave on Saturday morning about 11.45.
...
Surf board riders to represent the club will be E. Lambert, H. Scott. A. Sargent and E. McMichael.

Trove
1934 'SWIMMING', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 3 January, p. 9. , viewed 02 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139885401


New Call
Perth,  4 January 1934, page 15.



COMING IN ON THE ROLLERS

SURF BOARDS were very busy over the holidays,
and though the surf was not as vimful as it  might have been,
bathers had lots of fun.




ON THE CREST OF A WAVE


A FAIR SURFER revels in the thrills of the foaming surf on
a rubber "board."
 


Trove
1934 'COMING IN ON THE ROLLERS', New Call (Perth, WA : 1931 - 1934), 4 January, p. 15. , viewed 02 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article210853067




The Newcastle Sun
6 January 1934, page 1.


Surf
Boards For Hollywood Beauties

ON THE SHORES of Santa Monica (California)
beach beauties are learning to do pretty things with surf-boards which recently have been 'discovered,'
as aids to enjoyment in the breakers.


Trove

1934 'Surf Boards For Hollywood Beauties', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 6 January, p. 1. , viewed 02 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165069047


Table Talk
Melbourne, 11 January 1934, page 3.

And I Wish That I Were There!


Those who are unfortunate or foolish enough to be working in
Melbourne will cast envious eyes at these scenes.

On the top left
[below] is a surfing "team" at Lorne with their outsize in surf boards.
They have trained themselves to ride it in on the surf together.

[Right] ... the surfers are a couple at Anglesea. Miss M. Penny and Mr R. Curtis.



Trove
1934 '"And I Wish That I Were There!"', Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939), 11 January, p. 3. , viewed 02 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147260376

The Newcastle Sun
8 January 1934, page 2.

[Photographs]
THE SURFO PLANE, latest invention for shooting the breakers, is becoming increasingly popular on the beaches.
This photograph shows a youngster at New
castle Beach with his inflated raft.


ITS A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING. — Two lads shooting the breakers on their surfo plane.

HANG ON AND KEEP COOL — The surfo plane will do the rest.


Trove
1934 'No title', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 8 January, p. 2. (PICTORIAL SECTION), viewed 02 Jun 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165073323



The Evening News
Rockhampton, Queensland, 11 January 1934, page 3.


In The Surf
Dr. Ernest Smithers's Invention.
THE SURFOPLANE

For eight years Dr. Ernest
Smithers, of Macquarie street, literally walked on" air, and then came to earth this summer with an invention which is destined to introduce a huge people to one of the world's cheapest and most thrilling sports, to save many lives, and to carry Australia's name into every corner of the earth!
His invention is a rubberised surfoplane, or a rubber oblong"bag;" corrugated, and designed scientifically so that it can do all
the work of a surfboard - and more.

STRANGELY enough, although surfoplanes will replace surf-board's, they do not in the least resemble them (writes John Willams in the Sydney "Telegraph').
Overseas manufacturers years ago, realising that the heavy surfboards of wood, dangerous on crowded beaches, must be replaced by something offering the same thrill's without the danger, copied the design of the boards into rubber.
But the principles that operate in wood, will not in rubber.
Surf floats in all shapes and sizes were made in rubber but, still the boards remained - the thrill supreme.

Dr. Smithers, who lives at Bondi, and
is a keen surfer, eight years ago started experimenting with rubber surf 'planes.
He has made hundreds of different types.
"Our home was littered with rubber bags, yellow, pink, blue, red, and all shapes and sizes," the doctor recalls.
"We stumbled over and walked and slept on them for years.
We talked about nothing else at meal times.
We lived on air!

DR. ERNEST SMITHERS,
Inventor of the surfoplane.
 I was determined to evolve the correct type.
World medical statistics show that nose, ear arid antrum troubles are worst in Sydney because here we surf so much that the sand penetrates and causes the troubles.

"The measurements of our per
fected surfoplanes are 35 inches long by 27 with a buoyancy (which is the secret) to  support the heaviest person afloat.
"I discovered these proportions through an accident I had with a copy in rubber of an actual, surf board.
It snapped in half in the surf, and I found I raced ashore on one half, riding the breakers faster and straighter than I could on a
board!
"Those few seconds of practical experience taught me more than years and years of research.
And the result is what we have to-day- a faultless safety surfoplane."

The benefits of a surfoplane, as I saw at Bondi yesterday are: First, because of its lightness and cheapness it brings the sport within the grasp of old and young.
I saw a baby boy of 11 months afloat on one and a few yards away a bearded man of 74 recapturing lost youth with an other!
Surfboards in the hands of hundreds of swimmers racing through a crowd of thousands in the water would be dangerous - bumps, bruises, and injuries."
But surfoplanes, which are blown up by the mouth to only 21b. pressure, cannot inflict even a scratch.

For years old and young have sat on the sands and envied the owners of surfboards their thrills and spills out on the rollers, but surfoplanes1have, broken down the exclusiveness of surfboards.
Anybody who can swim can "shoot" the breakers now.
And surfoplanes keep the head out of water, enabling you -to see where you are going and banishing the cause of antrum and
other head troubles.
And they are great fun as rafts for children in smooth water.
They give the kiddies confidence.

Already this season many people who have got into difficulties owe their lives to surfoplanes.
Each can support six men clinging to it like a lifebelt.
The idea is: If you see a person in trouble give him (mostly her I) the closest surfoplane and then tow him - to safety.

Surfoplanes give colourful pep to a crowded beach because, they are painted canary yellow, the colour which stands out best in the water.
And they are useful as protection against the fierce sun and cold winds, and as beach cushion and tables.

Dr. Smithers, through his market
ing partner, Mr. Frank Knight, has obtained the exclusive rights to rent surfoplanes on all the metropolitan beaches from Palm Beach to the south coast
At Bondi, for example, Stan McDonald, well-known life-saver and patrolman, has forsaken his beach work to rent them.
And from his stall to the surf there is a canary yellow bee-line of young, and old racing back and forth with their surfoplanes.

Dr. Smithers shortly will go abroad
with his all-Australian invention, which already is giving work to many Australians.
 He will visit Hawaii and the .U.S.A., and then Europe and "everywhere there is a drop of water in which people swim!"
Every surfoplane will be branded "Australian surfoplane" and there is no reason why enterprising young Australians should not go abroad an become selling and renting agents for them on foreign beaches.

Trove
1934 'Riding On Air In The Surf', The Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 - 1941), 11 January, p. 3. , viewed 02 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201261201

The St George Call
Kogarah, 12 January
1934 , p. 5.
SWIMMING
CRONULLA SURF L.S. CLUB.
(By E.C.S.)

At North Bondi surf carnival last Saturday the champion Cronulla surf boat crew silenced the critics by winning
the senior surf boat race after a wonderful exhibition of oarsmanship.
Their performance is also meritorious considering that it was the first occasion the crew selected had rowed together under stroke Jack Toyer, who himself was making his first appearance in competitive events this season.
...
Another pleasing exhibition was the second place of R. Holcombe and R. Bennett using the double "surf ski" in the canoe race. They were only narrowly beaten and when they get some more experience they should prove tough nuts to crack in events of this
nature.

Trove
1934 'SWIMMING', The St George Call (Kogarah, NSW : 1904 - 1957), 12 January, p. 5. , viewed 23 Dec 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232212102


The Australian Women's Weekly
Saturday 17 February 1934, page 24.


Another young Sydney man going abroad shortly is "Blue" Russell, who leaves in April to study certain details concerning the wool industry in Germany.

With possible family connections with the Australian wool industry, and thus the interest of Sydney society pages,
Russell later travelled to Hawaii to compete at the Pacific games in 1939.

Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar
Number 35, 8 March 1934, page 6.

Out For A Ride


Big bad waves hold no terror for this little Connecticut visitor in Hawaii.
The tiny miss holding the big surfboard is an expect on the tricky craft,
and she is said to be Hawaii’s youngest surf rider.








California Digital Newspaper Collection,
Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu
Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, Number 35, 8 March 1934, page 6.


The Sydney Morning Herald
13 March 1934, page 14
AUSTRALIANS FOR ENGLAND.

Mr John S. Hoskins, managing director of Empire Speedways Ltd will leave for England tomorrow
He will bring back for the next Australian season the British team.
He Is pioneering another Austrailan sport in England and the Continent.
He will introduce the surf o planes which have become so popular on the Australian beaches.

Trove

1934 'AUSTRALIANS FOR ENGLAND.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 13 March, p. 14. , viewed 02 Jun 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17066180


The Courier-Mail
Brisbane, Monday 2 April 1934, page 11.
LIFE SAVERS' BUSY DAY
Rescues at Burleigh
FOUR CLUBS AT WORK

BURLEIGH HEADS, April 1.
Spectators at the surf carnival this afternoon were provided with plenty of thrills, when spectacular rescues were effected a short distance from where the surf competition was being held.
The members of four surf life-saving clubs participated in the rescues, and splendid work was done by C. A. Burcher, of Corinda, on his surf ski, a new contrivance for shooting the breakers.
On one occasion when Mr. Burcher went to the assistance of four men who were being swept out to sea, three reels were brought into use, and the surf boat was rushed to the aid of those in the water.
Fortunately the services of the boat were not required, Mr. Burcher and the life-savers were able to bring the men to safety.

Trove
1934 'LIFE SAVERS' BUSY DAY', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 2 April, p. 11. , viewed 18 May 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1185375

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate
Thursday 7 June 1934, page 15.

Surf-o-Plane Rights
'One of the Public' (Mateham), writes: —
Do Councillors consider they have made a good business deal by granting a monopoly of four beaches to surf-o-planes at 30/- a week.
At Tcrrigal alone, when weather is favorable, there will be 50 of these at 1/- an hour.
I myself consider that the Council has no right to grant a monopoly.
If there must be a monopoly it should go to the life saving clubs.

Trove

1934 'Surf-o-Plane Rights', The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate (NSW : 1906 - 1954), 7 June, p. 15. , viewed 02 Jun 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166945382


The Telegraph
Brisbane, Friday 21 September 1934, page 19.

SURF-SKI.

For the past year Sydney surf bathers have known a new kind of thrill.
Now Queenslanders are finding out what this new sport is.
It is called surf-sklng
The surf-ski is a cross between a duke-board and a canoe.
The navigator of this frail craft sits on it, holds on to it with the aid of the straps, and rides the roughest broncos of the surf with graceful ease.
The navigator propels his craft by means of a double-ended canoe paddle but that is only for going out.
He leaves the rest to the "shoots."

Trove
1934 'SURF-SKI.', The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), 21 September, p. 19. (SECOND EDITION), viewed 18 May 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article181369497


The Courier-Mail
Brisbane, Monday 24 September 1934, page 14.


Early Response to the Call of the Sun and Surf

Shooting shorewards in a smother of foam —
an actionful picture of the surf ski in action in the
breakers at Southport yesterday.

...
At top right:
Even if the sea lacked the warmth of midsummer, there was ample
 delight in shooting the breakers on the 'duke' board.

Trove
1934 'Early Response to the Call of the Sun and Surf', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 24 September, p. 14. , viewed 18 May 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35619526














The Courier-Mail
Brisbane, Thursday 27 September 1934, page 11.


ANSWERS
...
J.C.T. (Wynnum Central). —
We do not know of any place in Brisbane where surf skis could be procured.
Suggest you try Mick Simmons, Ltd., Haymarket, Sydney, or Hartley's Sports Depot, 270 Flinders Street, Melbourne, C.I.

Trove
1934 'ANSWERS', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 27 September, p. 11. , viewed 18 May 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35642847


The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser
Saturday  29 September 1934, page 3.
Safe-way Surf Planes.

At the annual meeting of the Kiama Surf Club on Monday last, considerable discussion arose on the matter of providing surf planes on the beach during
the forthcoming season.
Last year the Surf-o-plane Company wrote to the Kiama Council, seeking surf planes, and it was referred to the Surf Club for consideration, but when
the club got in touch with the companyon the matter they were informed that owing to the demand for the planes in the metropolitan area, the company
could not extend its operations to the country beaches.

In the meantime, a representative of the Safe-way Surf Plane Company had called on Mr. Tully during last week asking if the Surf Club would undertake to take up the agency of his company for the forthcoming season.
At the meeting on Monday night there was on exhibit one of the planes, and it was examined by all concerned.
The company, he said would supply as many of the planes as required throughout the year, and the club was under no obligation, except in the event of loss.
The old planes would be replaced when damaged, and the number required was left to the club's discretion.
They could not be purchased outright, and would have to be returned at the end of the season.
The cost of hiring them to the public was fixed at Gd per half hour, and the club would retain a percentage of the takings.
Mr. Tully said he personally thought that the idea was a good one and would tend to popularise the beach as surfboards were prohibited on the beach, and there was no danger if a bather was to collide with others whilst on a shoot.
He would like to see the matter taken up by the club and some responsible person appointed to look after them.
If the club decided to accept the proposition, the company would be able to deliver the planes for Eight-Hour week-end, when it was thought that a big crowd of surfers would be on-the beach.

Mr. Parton: Whilst not wishing to oppose the proposition, Mr. Chairman, I would like to point out that if theclub accepted, say 24, there would bea responsibility of over £30 in the event of them being lost.
They would need to be kept under lock and key- a double lock and key in fact.
Mr. Watkins said that Mr. Parton's argument was sound.
If all went well the club would benefit considerably by the proposition, but in the event of any being lost, the club would-be responsible for them
It was a good proposition, but some direct control was wanted over them.

Mr. Young: Personally, he would not like to see the club lose the offer of introducing the planes on the Kiama beach.
However, he would like to
know, in the event of the sole rights being granted to the company, would it prohibit the use of the toy rubber articles used by the children in the surf.
If the club refused to handle them, it did not mean that no one else could not.
If they could get some one to take charge of the planes, it would be a good proposition, for the club and a revenue producer.

Mr. Tully said the Safe-way Planes had an advantage over other planes of a similar nature, in that they could not be deflated by merely pulling out the air plug, and thus could not be wrapped up and taken away.
In reply to Mr. Parton, Mr. Tully said he had not discussed the question of taking out an insurance policy against theft and fire, but would be speaking with the representative in the morning and would mention the matter to him.
Mr. A. Ziems stated that the Surf-o-Plane. Company took out a policy covering theft and fire on their planes.
After further informal discussion, it was moved by Messrs. Parton and Long that Mr. Tully find out from the representative whether the company would take out an insurance policy covering fire and theft and report back to the executive, who were empowered to act in the matter.

Trove
1934 'Safe-way Surf Planes.', The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser (NSW : 1863 - 1947), 29 September, p. 3. , viewed 02 Jun 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105076025

The Courier-Mail
Brisbane, Wednesday 3 October 1934, page 10.

ANSWERS
J.C.T. (Wynnum Central).—
Mr. C. W. Walsh, of Surfers Paradise, is a manufacturer of surf skis.

Trove

1934 'ANSWERS', The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 3 October, p. 10. , viewed 18 May 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35642249


Queensland Times
Ipswich, Queensland, Wednesday 24 October 1934, page 9.


Holiday Visitors-
There was a large
crowd of visitors to Southport over the week-end; a good surf was running, and the users of surf skis and Duke surf boards gave displays.
Pic
nics were held in the shade of the trees at Main Beach and Surfers' Paradise.
Rain threatened in the af
ternoon, which caused the visitors to leave early.
 
Trove
1934 'SOUTHPORT.', Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), 24 October, p. 9 Edition: DAILY., viewed 6 April, 2014,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118559302

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