SWIMMER FROM N.Z. CAUSES A DIVERSION
RISKS IN SYDNEY SHW (United P.A.—Bp Tclegi'oph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Sunday. As a result of easterly gales, tremendous surf was running at Coogee and Bondi to-day. A life-saving brigade rescued about a dozen bather* who had been carried out to sea, some in a half-dead condition being resuscitated by ambulance men. A New Zealand visitor. Mr. Konald Webster, of Auckland, caused a diver-
sion on one beach. He swam in Ihe danger zone nearly 3W yards from the shore. Life-savers went out alter him, but lie leisurely came ashore on top of the huge breakers. When he was reproved by the surf brigade men because of -lie risks of sharks and the undertow, he calmly retorted that they thought nothing of going that far out in New Zealand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 7
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133SWIMMER FROM N.Z. CAUSES A DIVERSION Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 7
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