A WARNING
'•Parent" writes regarding \ danger to children as follows:— "I deem it to be wise, even though tlio season .is nearly ;ovei-; to-'issue a warning against allowing children to bathe unattended when using an inflated lifebuoy.. Even the best of these buoys occasionally deilate, and if this should happen when 'a child is even slightly. out of its depth, the eonseiHU'iiees mtiy bo serious. ''A child sit Day's' Bay yesterday had to be rescued owing'•'tb lidr bvioy; deflating when -shii HVas'tii'about four feet of water. ■'■•' "Further, a child may be inside a buoy and a slight current might carry it into :'debp-wafer/'' : - ; " : .'. •'• ;.'• "Again, tho buoy might float kway froni.thc child, who would follow it torecover it and get into danger. This, latter comment also applies to the_big;l beach ball which is so much' usediVv:
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 11
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135A WARNING Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 11
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