BREAKING SEAS
BEACH RISKS EMPHASISED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mountainous seas broke on the beaches with terrific force yesterday. At Bondi, Margaret Purge, aged 17, and a companion were sitting on the rocks when a huge- wave washed them into a crevasse. - Purge’s skull was fractured and she died shortly afterwards. Her companion received spinal injuries. • ’ . Two foreigners were swe'pt out by the strong current at Manly fully a mile from shore. thousand people watched surfmen battle for over an hour in rescuing then). Many surf bathers on other beaches were badly knocked about. A,t 'St. Kilda beach, Melbourne, Walter Eason was drowned in rough water.
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Northern Advocate, 5 March 1929, Page 7
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110BREAKING SEAS Northern Advocate, 5 March 1929, Page 7
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