LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT
Portable Units At 33 Beaches
The New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association’s intention to continue its practice of placing portable lifesaving lines on beaches that are not patrolled, has been commended by Mr S. V. Higgins, secretary of the National Water Safety Committee. “This has also been done by local life-saving associations in some districts, and equipment has already been used by members of the public in several rescues,” he says. This year the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Association will install 33 portable reels at known danger points. The association says the “installation of life-saving equipment at unpatrolled beaches is a direct responsibility of the local body controlling the beaches.” The association’s latest annual report says some of the valuable work done by providing life-saving equipment has been made useless by foolish vandalism.
Mr Higgins says: “Anyone with the impulse to ‘play about’ with portable life-sav-ing equipment should remember that his life may one day depend on the equipment being in good order.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30588, 3 November 1964, Page 19
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