MOUNTAINOUS SEAS
AUSTRALIAN BEACH FATALITIES Australian Press Association. Sydney, March 4. Mountainous seas broke on the beaches with terrific force yesterday. At Bondi Margaret Purge, 17, and a companion were sitting on the rocks when a huge wave washed them into a crevasse. The girl’s skull was fractured and she died shortly afterwards. Her companion received spinal injuries. Two foreigners were swept out by a strong current at Manly fully a mile from short, and twenty-five thousand people watched the surfmen battle for over an hour in rescuing them. Many life-savers and bathers on other beaches were badly knocked about. At the St. Kilda beach, Melbourne, Walter Eson was drowned in rough water.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 11
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113MOUNTAINOUS SEAS Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 11
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