JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 16 January 1911, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

AN ENERGETIC SURF CLUB". ' " {By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, January i 4. Tho newly r formed Castlectiff Surf Clubis going energetically to work to raise .. funds to make the beach Ij'otli • jiiwisautcr . and safijr for bathers. • for . both sexes are to be erected, but tha * chief aim of the club is-tb©.wfeguardins of life, the necessity for Trhich has been ( shown by the fact that, -during the last fortnight alone, there were no less than . ten narrow cscrvpes from drowning at * various ' danger spots on the Castlocliff , beach, which, already, has too many ; fatalities in its recofd. A lifeboat, buoys»" and belts have already been donated to f tho club, which will build a shed to house -them; and erect additional danger boards. It has also already ordered a # patent reel and life-saving line from Sydney. The club will be divided into.teams • of seven, who will sacrifice their holidays • in order that an expert body of rescuers : may bo .alwayson thft .beach to assist - unwary or- rash bathers from the deadly • undertow which. is generally in evjdenco' when the tide is on the ebb. In connection with the Harbour Board elections •in • April, it-- has -been discovered that' no controlling authority .for the conduct of the poll has been appointed for Wanganui (which is what i;i known as a combined'district), under the • now Act, nor has any provision been' made in-the Act for the appointment of a returning ■ oßicer. • Tho Harbour . Board' is writing to the Marine Department on the, subjwt, asking it to rectify / tho omissions. . * *