AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9084, 2 December 1909, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

DOUBLE SURF FATALITY.

TWO BROTHERS DROWNED.

A double drowning fatality occurred at Cronulla Beach, near Sydney, last week. Two brothers, Sydney and Hubert James Bass, recent arivals from Buckinghamshire, England, proceeded for a bathe from the shore at The Oaks Point. Hubert, the younger, aged 23 years, had swum out some distance, and was apparently in difficulties. The elder brother, Sydney, aged 30 years, noticing hie brother's plight, and being a strong swimmer, went to his assistance. The occurrence so often happening in such cases was the result in this. The rescuer was propped by the drowning man and both sank. An alarm was at once raised by tho few persons about this spot, and two members of tho Cronulla Surf Club, whose central quarters arc fully a mile away —at tho beach where most of tho surf-bathing takes place—hastened in a' boat to tho spot, and the position of the bodice having been located Frank Giddings dived in, and after some difficulty succeeded in releasing one of the bodice and brought it to the surface. All efforts, at resuscitation proved futile.