BATHERS IN DANGER.
SYDNEY SURF RUNS HIGH. A COOL NEW ZEALANDER. (Received November 20, 12..'j0 n.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 23. As .1 result of easterly gales tremendous surf was running at C'oogec and Dondi to-day. A life-saving brigado rescued about a dozen bathers who had been carried out to sea, some in a Jinlf dead condition were resuscitated by ambulance men. A New Zealand visitor, Mr. Ponnld Webster, of Auckland, caused a diversion on one beach. lie sv.am in the danger zone nearly 300 yards from the shore. Life-savers went out after him, but he leisurely caino ashore on top of the huge breakers.
When he was reproved by the surfbrigade men because of the lisks of sharks and the undertow, he calmly retorted that they thought nothing of going that far out in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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