SURFING SENSATIONS.
ON SYDNEY BEACHES
YESTERDAY’S RECORD
INCLUDES ONE FATALITY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received March 16, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 16. One tragedy, a shark scare, several narrow escapes and many fine rescues were associated with surf bathing on Sydney beaches on Sunday. A party of five young men entered the water at Collaroy several hundred yards from the safety flag area. They were soon in difficulties. Two managed to struggle ashore, two others were rescued by a life-saver, but there was no trace, of the fifth, and there was little doubt that he was carried out to sea and drowned. His name is Ernest Hayes, aged 20, of Beecroft.
During the progress of an exhibition by members of the Surf Life-saving Club at Newport, arranged to illustrate to the visiting New Zealand oarsmen methods adopted in surf life-saving work, an unusually dangerous sea gave it aii unexpected flavour of realism. Three fine rescues were effected. Considerable excitement was caused at Bondi when it was reported that a shark had been seen prowling just beyond the breakers. Bathers were not allowed, to enter the water for half an hour, when it was reported that the monster had disappeared.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 March 1925, Page 7
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