Bluebottles return to beaches
The bluebottle menace ia || beginning to reappear on *' Christchurch beaches. “Swimmers who are stung • .;/ by them should immediately .. see one of our patrollers, 1 ' said the patrol co-ordinator for the Canterbury Surf Saving Association, Mr G, -;‘ Le Cren. .. Victims should not rub ’ the sting, or apply anything , to it. Cold water, and 'S? methylate spirits, which the 7 patrols had, were the best 7 relief. ■< ’’ it; -.t. Yesterday Ayas another good one for swimming, and many bathers were at th© beaches. ’ / < /. “Swimmers should check ,;-f often to make sure they are between the flags at. all - times," he said. ? . ■ ’
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Press, 20 January 1981, Page 6
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