Life-Saving Titles

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32235, 2 March 1970, Page 22

Life-Saving Titles

f.V Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Four surf patrols and a jet surf boat were the stars of the 1970 New Zealand surf life-saving championships which ended at Piha yesterday.

The patrols were the Muriwai team, which won the Allan Gardner Memorial Trophy for the third year in succession. Waikanae. of Gisborne. which retained the Nelson Shield for the fifth successive year, and Moana Rua, the women’s patrol which had the greatest success in its section of the carnival.

Finally there was the jet surf boat belonging to the Midway patrol of Gisborne which provided the spectators with a great display in the surf conditions and proved its

great worth by making several rescues during the championships. MEH Senior Individual Surf Race —R. Harker <Red Beach) 1. J. Sneyd tEastern United) 2. R. Fraser ‘Fitzroy) 3. Individual Surf Ski. —D. Jackman (Muriwai) 1. G. Butt ‘Muriwai) 2. P. Davies (Waimairi) 3. Surf Teams’ Race.—Muriwai 1. Piha 2. Fitzroy 3 Beltman's Race.—R Harker (Red Beach' 1. B Ward ‘South Brighton) 2. J. Moses (South Brighton) 3. Surf Ski Rescue.—G. Mauger ‘Piha» 1. B. Magee (Mount Maunganui* 2. G. Teear (Sumner) 3. Malibu Board. —G. Frazerhurst • Waipu Cove» 1. B Broughton (Island Bay) 2. B Grace (Titahi Bay) 3. Hollow Board. B Grace iTitahi Bay) 1. D. Jackman (Muriwai* 2. I. McDermott (Taylor’s Mistake) 3. Surf Canoe—Muriwai 1. Waihi 2 Sumner 3. Boat Race. —Whakatane 1: Muriwai A 2, Titahi Bay A 3. Four-man Rescue and Resusci-j tation.—Waikanae 1. Muriwai 2J East End 3.

Nelson shield Six-man Rescue And Resuscitation.—Waikanae A 1, Taylor’s Mistake 2, Waikanae B 3. Beach Relay.—Muriwai 1. Tay-i ilor’s Mistake 2, Bethells Beach! March Past.—Worsen Bay l.i Sumner and Eastern United, equal 2. . Allan Gardner Memorial i Trophy.—Aggregate points:; ; Muriwai 27 points, 1: Waikanae 15, 2; Bethalls Beach and Titahi Bay 12, equal 3. Junior Individual Surf Race.—A. Kerr, (Waikanae) 1. A. Price (Mount Maunganui) 2, G. Martin: , (Bethells Beach) 3. Surf Boat.—Worser Bay 1., Titahi Bay A 2, Titahi Bay B 3. Four-man Alarm. Bethells Beach 1. Fitzroy 2. New Plymouth Old Boys 3. Six-man Rescue and Resuscitation.—Paekakariki 1. New Plymouth Old Boys 2. St Kilda 3. March Past—Eastern United; 1, Sumner 2. Titahi Bay 3. WOMEN Individual Surf Race Championship—G. Donaldson (Moanaj Rua) 1. B Boberg (Moana Rua); 2. S. Hatchwell < Wellington j ’ Ladies) 3. Beltmen’s Race. L. Smith; (Wellington Ladies) 1. S. Hatchwell (Wellington Ladies) 2. G. Donaldson (Moana Rua) 3. Four-man Alarm.—Paekakariki 1. Waitemata Ladies 2, Wai-' mairi 3. Six-man Rescue and Resuscitation. —Moana Rua 1. Island' Bay 2. South Brighton 3. March — Waitemata • Ladies 1. East End 2, Wellington Ladies 3.

Surfer In Trouble A young woman competitor at the national surf life-; saving championships at Piha! today was rushed ashore by a patrolling jet boat after being trapped under Bft surf. The girl. Miss Patricia Walker, of the East End Club, Taranaki, nearly drowned. She was taking part in the final of the women’s rescue! and resuscitation event. Act-; ing as beltman, she swam out 200 yards to the marker buoy to pick up the “patient." “I got my belt line eaught; up with the marker buoy I line,” she said later. “1 got dragged under the water by| a wave and they (her! rescuers) couldn’t find the Pin.”