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The Canberra Times
3 January 1955, page 2.

Drowned In Canoe Capsize
SYDNEY, Sunday.
A 34-year-old man was drowned when a small canoe capsized a mile off Palm Beach to-day.
He was Arthur Henry Fiannery, of Parramatta Road, Homebush.
Flannery went to Palm Beach with a friend, Barry Raymond Pierce, 18, of Willis Street, Enfield, to fish.
The men took a small two seater plywood canoe with them.
About a mile off the beach the canoe was thrown about violently by a strong rip.
A large wave overturned the canoe, throwing Flannery and Pierce into the water.
Pierce clung desperately to the capsized canoe with one hand and supported Flannery with the other.
Lifesavers on surfboards brought them ashore.
Pierce recovered after treatment, but Flannery failed to respond.

Trove
1955 'Drowned In Canoe Capsize', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 3 January, p. 2. , viewed 02 Jan 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91201247

Townsville Daily Bulletin
 6 January 1955, page 2.


Urgent Need For More - Lifesavers

SYDNEY, January 5: Australian life saving dubs needed 2600 new active members Immediately.
The Surf Ufa Saving Association of Australia President (Judge Adrian Curlewis) said to-day that clubs' memberships all over Australia had been falling off recently.

Trove
1955 'Urgent Need for More Lifesavers', Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954), 6 January, p. 2. , viewed 26 Jul 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62538853


Townsville Daily Bulletin
10 January 1955, page 2..

Thrilling Rescue Of Surf Skier

COOLANGATTA, January 9.— Iilfesavers from three clubs battled for 40 minutes to-day to rescue a lone surf ski rider who was swept almost one and a half miles out to sea off Greenmount beach.
Surf ski experts, Ron Hawkey and Tom Hart, of Cudgen Surf Club, eventually brought the man to the beach after a hard struggle to keep their ski under control In the heavy seas.
Shortly after the man's plight was noticed, an unidentified Newcastle Ufesaver on holidays hastily borrowed a surf ski and took a belt and line out through the breakers.
He made fast headway through the heavy seas as he paddled out, dragging the line behind him, but he had to slip the belt after he had run out of two and a half reels of cord.
Hawkey and Hart reached the exhausted man first and brought him back through heavy surf.
The rescued man, believed to be Mick Gallagher, about1?, of Brisbane, was suffering:severely from cold and shock.
He was taken away by friends without leaving any personal details.
Lifesavers said Gallagher was swept out by a stiff wind, strong currents and rough seas at his first attempt on a surf ski.

Trove
1955 'Thrilling Rescue Of Surf Skier', Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954), 10 January, p. 2. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62543079


The Argus
Melbourne, 10 January 1955, page 7.


Zipping through the surf.

Life on the white-crested waves gliding into Bondi Beach, Sydney, is her idea of how to spend a weekend!
She's from Bondi, too.
Beverley Hilton is her name.


Trove
1955 'Zipping through the surf', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 10 January, p. 7. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71688825



Townsville Daily Bulletin
10 January 1955, page 2.
Thrilling Rescue Of Surf Skier
COOLANGATTA, January 9.—
Lifesavers from three clubs battled for 40 minutes to-day to rescue a lone surfski rider who was swept almost one and a half miles out to sea off Greenmount beach.
Surf ski experts, Ron Hawkey and Tom Hart, of Cudgen Surf Club, eventually brought the man to the beach after a hard struggle to keep their ski under control in the heavy seas.
Shortly after the man's plight was noticed, an unidentified Newcastle lifesaver on holidays hastily borrowed a surf ski and took a belt and line out through the breakers.
He made fast headway through the heavy seas as he paddled out, dragging the line behind him, but he had to slip the belt after he had run out of two and a half reels of cord.
Hawkey and Hart reached the exhausted man first and brought him back through heavy surf.
The rescued man, believed to be Mick Gallagher, about 10, of Brisbane, was suffering severely from cold and shock.
He was taken away by friends without leaving any personal details.
Lifesavers said Gallagher was swept out by a stiff wind, strong currents and rough seas at his first attempt on a surf ski.

Trove
1955 'Thrilling Rescue Of Surf Skier', Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954), 10 January, p. 2. , viewed 02 Jan 2017,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62543079


The Argus
Melbourne, 12 January 1955, page 7.

ATTRACTIVE AND ACTIVE

ABOVE: That surf at Lorne yesterday held no terrors for Joan Joyce, of Melbourne.
Her friend, Stewart Stribling, also of Melbourne ,bounced off when the wave hit, but not Joan ...
she hung on tightly and rode the surfboard safely to shore.
Trove
1955 'ATTRACTIVE— AND ACTIVE', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 12 January, p. 7. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71689231


Sunday Times
Perth, 30 January 1955, page 48.


Having a holiday afloat

Having fun on their surfboards at North Cottesloe yesterday were Sandra Ridge, Deidre Simpson and Fay Ferguson.



Trove
1955 'Having a holiday afloat', Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), 30 January, p. 48. , viewed 02 Jan 2017,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59700784



Sunday Times
Perth, 13 February 1955, page 40.

Know Your Sportsmen

BOB PHELPS

An-eighteen-year-old
member of the Scarborough Surf Lifesaving Club,-is confident that he will win today's State Surf-board Championship.
A good-looking, 5ft. 11in,10st. 7lb. lad, he has been with the club for the last three years.
Most of this
time has been devoted to his paddleboard.
Last year he was runner-up to George Bevan of Sydney In the State Championship, and this year has won three out of the five surf carnival events.
Also this year he
was a member of the Scarborough senior R and R team.
He schooled at Scotch College and represented them at rugby, swimming and lifesaving.
Although Bob swims all the year round, he still finds time to be assistant scoutmaster at the Scarborough Troop.
During the "wet winter nights" he
builds a miniature railwayat home.
An apprentice fitter and turner who neither smokes nor drinks, he, at the moment, does not feel inclined to alter his un-married status for "sometime-I'm too young."

Trove
1955 'Know Your Sportsmen', Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), 13 February, p. 40. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59701451

The Argus
Melbourne,  22 February 1955, page 7
.

SYDNEYSIDERS SALUTE OUR TORQUAY SURF THRILLS

Two Sydneysiders who will go home praising our beaches are John Agnew and Janelle Biggs.
Argus photographer Frank Grant's picture shows John and Janelle riding their surfboard on Torquay's creamy surf and both are loving it.
They enjoyed yesterday's surf so much that they've booked in at Torquay for another surfing holiday next summer.


Trove
1955 'SYNDNEYSIDERS SALUTE OUR TORQUAY SURF THRILLS', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 22 February, p. 7. , viewed 28 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71634894


The World's News
Sydney, 19 March 1955, page 27.

Australiana Lifesaver
...
First surf board

FIRST attempt at using a board for surf riding was made at Manly Beach (Sydney) in 1910, when four members of the local surf club experimented with a solid board about 7ft long, 3ft wide, and rounded at one end.
Their attempts to stand on the board were unsuccessful, but they were able to shoot small waves while lying on the board.
At the 
end of 1914 the Hawaiian swimmer, Duke Kahanamoku, used a board at Freshwater (NSW) and early the next year demonstrated board riding at a-surf carnival at Deewhy, shooting breakers nearly 20ft high and for up to 150 yards.
On a few occasions a young lady went out with the Hawaiian and stood on the board with him when a wave was taken—a remarkable balancing feat because Kahanamoku used a solid board, only 8ft 6in long, made of sugar pine.
By 1933 Australian surfers had invented the hollow surfboard, and four years later the modern, streamlined board made its appearance on our beaches.
It was not until 1945 that the Surf Life Saving Association decided officially that surfboards could be used for rescues.
Kahanamoku's original board is now in the possession of Freshwater Surf Club.
—D.Y. (NSW).

Trove
1955 'Australiana Lifesaver', The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), 19 March, p. 27. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133915179

The Canberra Times
5 April 1955, page 1.
SURFBOARD TO AID DISABLED SHIP
LISMORE, Monday.
A Byron Bay lifesaver tomorrow will attempt, to take spare parts by surfboard to a Brisbane fishing boat disabled in rough seas off Byron Bay.
The life-saver, Hal Hankin, is former Far North Coast surfboard champion.
The crew of the disabled vessel, the 32ft. Marjan, was taken off by another fishing boat-today.
.Rough seas pounding the Byron Bay coastline have prevented any vessels going out to sea.
It is proposed to lash 1cwt. of machinery, which is being rushed from Toowoomba by road, on to the surfboard.
Hankin will endeavour to reach the 45ft. Tamoi, which is anchored about a half nille offshore.
The skipper of. the Marjan is aboard the Tamoi.
Tonight fishermen considered that a surfboard entering the water from the end of Byron Bay jetty, could negotiate the rough seas.

Trove
1955 'PLAN TO USE SURFBOARD TO AID DISABLED SHIP', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 5 April, p. 1. , viewed 02 Jan 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91196141


The Argus
Melbourne, 21 June 1955, page 18.
Torquay gets surf carnival

Torquay was last night de
cided by preferential voting,as the site for the international surf carnival during the Melbourne Olympic Games.
The vote was taken at a meeting of the Surf Lifesaving Association of Victoria.
The carnival will be held November 25, 1956.
Torquay wiil also be the site of the Australian surf Championships, which will be held one week later, on December 2.
— JUDY JOY DAVIES.

Trove
1955 'Torquay gets surf carnival', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 21 June, p. 18. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71889328

The Argus
Melbourne, 2 July 1955, page 34.

JUDY JOY SAYS ...
...
ONE of the most unusual sporting events our overseas visitors and Olympic competitors will see during the Melbourne Games will be a sport we Australians take for granted.
Our visitors' interest will be attracted by the surf carnivals at Torquay during the Olympic Games.
Although not a part of the Games, the surf carnivals will include international events and the Australian championships.
Apart from the South Africans and some Americans, most of our visitors will never have seen surf, let alone a surf carnvial.
The thrill of watching swimmers battle through heavy surf, men riding, surf boards on the crests of waves, or surf boat crews straining to take their boats out past the breakers will be a new enjoyment for our visitors, and also a wonderful advertisement for Australia.
JUDY JOY DAVIES.

Trove
1955 'JUDY JOY SAYS...', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 2 July, p. 34. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71665302


The Detroit Tribune
August 6, 1955, page 3.

RED CROSS SAFETY NOTES

Air mattresses, inner tubes, and other devices to help keep you afloat in the water are lots of fun but potentially dangerous if not used properly, Frederick K. Cody, Water Safety Chairman of the Detroit Red Cross Chapter, cautioned today.

“If you can't swim, never go in water above your shoulder lever, even when you have something to keep you afloat,” Mr. Cody warned.
“Inner tubes, mattresses, and other floating devices can slip away easily, leaving the non-swimmer help less and in panic.”
“Consider the safety of others, too.
If you are using an air mattress or surfboard to ride the waves, make sure no one is in your path.
You may strike them and cause injury.
“Follow the regulations for use of flotation devices in pools and other swimming areas.
These rules are made for your safety,” Mr. Cody concluded.

The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, August 06, 1955, Image 3
Image and text provided by Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library
Persistent link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92063852/1955-08-06/ed-1/seq-3/

Worker
Brisbane, 19 December 1955, page 4.


 A NEW THRILL

GROUP-CAPTAIN John Cunningham, commander of the jet airliner Comet III, spent a while riding a Bondi surfboard before flying back to England.
Group - Captain Cununingham, used to travelling at 500 m.p.h. by air, said later:
'It was my first real go on a proper surfboard.
'I was not good enough to go solo.
'I was accompanied by an expert surf board rider, Brian Hill.
'I lay on the board flat on my stomach and hung on grimly while a terrific wave took us back to the shore.
'I am sure we were travelling at some great speed, I enjoyed every moment of it.
'I would like to do a lot more surboard riding.
It is a wonderful change from flying.'

Trove
1955 'NEWS AND VIEWS', Worker (Brisbane, Qld. : 1890 - 1955), 19 December, p. 4. , viewed 28 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71404082

The Argus
Melbourne, 26 December 1955, page 14.
Wicked day at Paradise
BRISBANE Sunday:
Severe blue-bottle stings, shark alarms, and dangerous surf on several beaches near Surfers Paradise marredChristmas Day on the South
Coast.
...
William Swannie, 30,clerk, of Brisbane, had hisnose broken and his face badly cut when he was struck by a surf board at Kirra.

Trove
1955 'Wicked day at Paradise', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 26 December, p. 14. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71788565

The Canberra Times
27 December 1955, page 2.
SNOWY WORKER DROWNS
SYDNEY, Monday.
A 2d-year-old New Australian was swept out to sea at Mona Vale Beach to-day and is believed to have drowned.
The migrant, Hermumt Kasbach, of Cooma, worker on the Snowy River scheme, was spending: his Christmas holidays in Sydney.

Police have been told he could not swim.
Kasbach was caught in a rip and swept over 100 yards out to sea when a wave threw him from a surf board.
A friend, John Wright, went to his rescue and reached Kasbach as he lost consciousness.
However, a wave parted'(the two men and Kasbach disappeared.

Trove
1955 'SNOWY WORKER DROWNS', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 27 December, p. 2. , viewed 26 Jul 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91214737


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