BATHERS IN BRITAIN.
LIFE-SAVING VOLUNTEERS. 7 GROWTH OF THE MOVEMENT. LONDON, October 11. Quite like Australia is the picture of bronzed life-savers drilling on British beachers and patrolling the shores ready to rescue, as painted by the "News-Chronicle," which reveals the plans of the Royal Life-Saving Society for next season.
The society is co-operating with the Coastguard Service in developing a movement for safer sea bathing. Already 2470 holders of the society's bronze medallion have been enrolled in a volunteer corps. The movement received an impetus from Frank Beaurepaire's advice and his statement that Australian lifesavers save 500 lives a year in the height of the season alone. Captain Alwyn Briscoe, assistant secretary of the society, says the volunteers have already saved 11 lives, although the organisation was only recently formed.
During 1933, members on holiday will be attached to coastguard stations and give life-saving demonstrations. Meanwhile the society is circulating a film illustrating rescues and resuscitation.
Mr Ross Eagle, vice-president of the Swimming Instructors' Association, urges that the volunteers be equipped with Australian surf reels, which, he says, would be of inestimable value in rough seas and outgoing tides.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 13, 26 October 1932, Page 8
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