STORM IN AUSTRALIA.
MOUNTAINOUS SEAS SWEEP COAST.
(United Praia Association—By Eleetrle Telegraph—Copyright. I SYDNEY, March 4. Mountainous seas broke on the beaches with terrific force yesterday. At Bondi, Margaret Purge (17), and a companion were sitting on the rocks when a huge wav© washed them into a crevasse Th© girl’s skull was fractured, and she died shortly afterwards. Her companion received spinal injuries Two foreigners were swept by a strong current at Manly fully a mile from the shore. Twenty-five thousand watched the Rurfmen battle for over an hour in rescuing them. Many life savers and bathers on the other beaches were badly knocked about.
At St. Kilda beach, Melbourne, Walter Eson was drowned in the rough water.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18205, 5 March 1929, Page 9
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