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Sydney, Friday, 2 January 1925, page 12.

NORTH BONDI
Big Surf Carnival To-Morrow

The big event in the surf world, tomorrow, will be, the North Bondi carnival.
The club anticipates that the function will be the most successful it has held.
The local swimming club has postponed its ordinary Saturday event in order to assist the surfers.
At the moment of writing the water promises to be on the quiet side, but with the sudden changes we have been experiencing latterly, it is difficult to, tell from one day to another what sort of a sea will be running.
...
Sam Kahanamoku; however, will be the main attraction, as he has promised to give an exhibition on his surf board.
Kahanamoku comes with the reputation of being the finest exponent of this thrilling branch of sport in Hawaii, the place where it originated.
If the waves are favorable, there should be something worth going a long way to see.

Trove
1925 'NORTH BONDI', Arrow (Sydney, NSW : 1916 - 1933), 2 January, p. 12. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103542756
Evening News
Sydney, Friday 2 January 1925, page 3.
SPEEDING
B0NDI TO MANLY IN TWENTY MINUTES

ls it possible to travel from Bondi to Manly in 20 minutes?
Sam Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian swimmer, thinks so.
Anyway, he is going to try It to-morrow afternoon.
He will give a demonstration with a surf-board at the North Bondi Carnival, and will finish about 3.40.
As soon as he leaves he water he will board a waiting car.
If the traffic police do not stop him, the driver says he will reach the Rose Bay Jetty In five minutes.
There Pritchard's 'Try-one-two' high-powered speed launch will be in readiness  to cut across to Manly Baths with the visiting swimmer.
With the wind and weather favorable, the launch will cross the harbor in 13 or 14 minutes, this enabling Kahanamoku to make his appearance at the Manly Amateur Swimming Carnival at 4 o'clock.

Trove
1925 'SPEEDING', Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), 2 January, p. 3. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117970297
Sunday Times
Sydney,  4 January1925, page 9.
SURFING
SAM KAHANAMOKU'S VISIT
Those White Costumes : Personal Pars
(By RESCUE.)

The big item of interest for surfers at present is the visit of Sam Kahanamoku to the Sydney beaches.
 He gave an exhibition on the surf board at Bondi yesterday afternoon, and will be at Cronulla to-day.
 His surf shooting is wonderful to watch and a great crowd is expected to witness his feats at Cronulla to-day.
Kahanamoku is a pleasing type of fellow, and is already very popular on the beaches.
Not since the visit of his famos brother, Duke, has such a delightful exhibition been given as was the case at North Bondi yesterday.
SURF BOARD SHOOTING.

Where was surf board shooting first originated?
That is a question that has been asked a good deal on our beaches of late.
So far as is known shooting the breakers on a board appears to have originated in the Sandwich Islands.
It is the common sport in the surf by natives and whites at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, where the conditions are admirably suitable, and shoots up to three quarters of a mile are plentiful.
Sam Kahanamoku is reputed to hold the record of a mile shoot.
The big surf boards were first introduced into New South Wales about 14 years ago, when one was forwarded to Mr. C. D. Paterson, from Honolulu.
Mr. Paterson found it unmanageable and dangerous, so he handed it over to some of the younger members of the North Steyne Club to practice with.
It was not until Duke Kahanamoku arrived in 1914 that Sydney was treated to a first-class exhibition of board riding in the surf.
It is wonderfully graceful when performed by experts, but too dangerous for the multitude to learn owing to the heavy, quick-breaking waves on our beaches.
PERSONALS.

What a wonderful worker for surf bathers is Mr. C. D. Paterson.
For eleven years he has been president of the Surf Life Saving Association, and has done more to make our beaches safe than any other in N.S.W.
He was the first surf commissioner.
Mr. Paterson can be seen at every carnival, and no matter what the weather is like he always carries out his duties, though they mean that he would be drenched to his skin.
He would sooner do one good turn for surfers than get a £1000.
Another great worker is popular little Don Mclntyre, who has been associated with the surf associations for a longer period than even Mr.Paterson.
He is enthusiastic, and his position as secretary enables him to do a lot of good for the work that he loves.
...

Trove
1925 'SURFING', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 4 January, p. 9. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128160488
Sunday Times
Sydney, 4 January 1925, page 8.
SAM KAHANAMOKU, the Hawaiian champion, "standing on his head" on a surf-board at North Bondi Carnival yesterday.










Trove
1925 'MAIDEN HANDICAP IN DIVISIONS', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 4 January, p. 8. , viewed 04 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128160470
Truth
Sydney, 4 January 1925, page 4.
Kanhanamoku Comes to Town
Christie's Excellent 400 Yards
Doyle Turns the Tables on Carberry

Yesterday's winding-up effort for next Saturday's big carnival saw some excellent swims.
Frank Doyle just beat Carberry over 100 yards in 57 secs., and Stuart swam round about 68 secs.- twice at Manly.
Christie's effort over 400 yards was up to Australia's best standard, and all the swims did fair to keep Kahanamoku moving.
Manly's annual carnival opened in fine weather, but just as the sport was getting exciting leading up to that famous event, the North and South of the corso, down came Saturday's usual rain, and spoilt the day.
Just before that Sam Kanahamoku had been received with great applause after a spectacular arrival at Manly in Pritchard Bros.' speed boat, 'Try One Too,'

FROM BONDI TO MANLY.

Sam had a busy day, for he started off with a surf-board display at Bond!.
So attractive was the item that a record crowd was in attendance at the popular seaside resort.
Kahanamokus' exhibition was a fine one, but that only marked the first phase of the afternoon's work.
[This was] followed a dash by car and speed boat to Manly!
Two and a half mlnutes were eaten up in a hair-raising trip to Rose Bay and then aboard the 'TryOne Too' off to Manly.
The trip only took 19 minutes, and the whole journey 21 minutes, which surely creates a record.
Sam enjoyed the trip like a great big schoolboy.
It is worthy of note that against the wind the 'Try One Too' made the return trip to Fort Macquarie over 6 1/2 miles in 15 minutes, or over 15 m.p.h.

Trove
1925 'Kananamoku Comes to Town', Truth (Sydney, NSW : 1894 - 1954), 4 January, p. 4. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168708000
Sunday Times
Sydney,  4 January 1925, page 9.
SURF BOARD ACROBATICS
Sam Kahanamoku at Bondi
Record Crowd Attends Annual Carnival
,
Though he was not silhouetted against a pink Hawaiian sky, framed by groves of swaying palms, and accompanied by girls in swishy grass skirts, who twang ukuleles, Sam Kahanamoku seemed pretty much at home in the surf at Bondi yesterday afternoon.
Surf is much the same, no doubt to the Hawaiian champion, whether it breaks on his native coral reefs or on Bondi's golden beach.
At the same time it was a trifle unfortunate for Kahanamoku that a stringent south wind blew up yesterday and confronted him with tricky cross currents and choppy water.
He did many clever things, but several times a roller he didn't expect sent him toppling into the sea off his board.

A WONDERFUL WELCOME

Punctually at 3 p.m., Kahanamoku, who is of handsome physique and happy disposition, came on to the beach, faced a record crowd, and received a wonderful welcome.
The occasion was the annual surf carnival of the North Bondi Life Saving. Club.
It was estimated that between 4000 and 5000 people paid for admission to the enclosure, where the gate receipts— approximately £120— were easily a record for the club.
The weather was dull at the outset with dark clouds banking up,  but almost from one end of the promenade to the other spectators stood two and three deep.
No beach offers such splendid facilities to spectators as that at Bondi.
There in an unbroken promenade and sloping sand down to the water edge.

STOOD ON HIS HEAD.

Kahanamoku carried a surf board, 9ft 2in long made of Californian red wood, and lent to him by Nevill Loughlin, of Bondi club,
The crowd cheered him as he lay 'on it full length and swam through the breakers out to sea.
Eventually .he sighted a wave he considered friendly, but it broke badly.
Next time he came in lying on the board.
A second or so later, he was kneeling, then standing, and, when he had passed through the rough water he "stood on his head" as he travelled towards the beach.
The crowd cheered him to the echo, and then roared with laughter as. his board swayed and toppled him into the sea. .
LOCAL RIVALS.

But the Hawaiian is not perturbed by such a trifle.
Out to sea again he forged his way, and, after a little finesse, he was upright and on his hands again
He repeated the performance a number of times, and was then joined by four local surf board exponents.
None of them had been invited to exhibit their prowess, but, as they had their boards with them, no doubt they thought one man ought not to have the sea to himself.
They succeeded admirably in distracting attention from the man the Public had paid, to see, and another blow was aimed at law and order when two young women "colored for the occasion," promenaded in the roped-off portion of the beach.
Kahanamoku is such an artist in the surf that officials deserve every possible support when they stage him at a first-class carnival.
With water conditions in his favor, or more closely resembling those which obtain in Hawaii, he should do better than he did yesterday.
"He's clever all right," said a well known surf club official, "but I don't think he has anything on Frank Foran, the Waverley man, who used to stand on his head on a surf board and balance his dog on the prow of it."
DASH FOR COVER.

Almost immediately after Kahanamoku had left the water and been whirled away in a motor-car to Rose Bay. where he caught a speed launch for Manly, the surf began to roll in nicely, but then heavy rain came, and there was a thrilling rush on the part of thousands of people for cover.
The only ones who avoided a wetting were those who managed to find cover in the surf house, or in the shelter sheds on the promenade.
The programme was carried right through in spite of the rain.
The outstanding result of. the water events was the defeat in the Cecil Healy Memorial Surf Shield Competition of Manly Club, who had held the shield for five years in succession, and to whom victory in the present season's series would have meant possess

Trove
1925 'SURF BOARD ACROBATICS', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 4 January, p. 9. , viewed 05 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128160471
Sunday Times
Sydney,  4 January 1925, page 7.
FOR THE TIVOLI
...
Two theatricals on the sick list recently: Roger Barry, (the result of a collision with a surf board while bathing at Bondi) ; Dorothy Purdell, who was operated on, but is making good progress.

Trove
1925 'FOR THE TIVOLI.', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 4 January, p. 7. (Social and Magazine Section), viewed 05 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128160341
The Daily Mail
Brisbane, Monday, 5 January 1925, page  13.
Swimming
SAM KAHANAMOKU RIDlNG THE SURF BOARD.

SYDNEY, Saturday.-
The visiting swimmer, Sam Kahanamoku, who holds the surf board riding record for Hawaii, gave an exhibition of his art at North Bondi this afternoon, under unsuitable conditions.
The water was choppy and the waves irregular- nothing like the breakers at Waikiki.
The Hawaiian used a 9ft board provided by a member of the North Bondi Club, which was holding its annual carnival.
There was a splendid crowd.
The march past was won by the Clovelly Club, which was successful at the Coogee carnival on Thursday.
When Kahanamoku entered the water there was not a wave which could be considered good.
Nevertheless, he paddled his board at great speed, and about 100 yards from the beach waited patiently.
He attempted several times to pick up, but the small waves were too tricky, and the Hawaiian was upset.
During the few moments when he did manage to ride the waves, however he demonstrated that he was a master of the art.
After his exhibition. Kahanamoku said that he had not liked the choppy surf, and the board was not suited to him
It was too heavy and broad.
 "I could get on a wave much quicker with my own board," he said.

Trove
1925 'SWIMMING', The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1903 - 1926), 5 January, p. 13. , viewed 05 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218325132
The Sun
Sydney, Saturday 10 January 1925, page 6.

HAWAIIAN GIRL
Swimmer Arrives \
HOLDS WORLD'S RECORDS
Don't call her "Squeaky." '
Probably she was given the nickname because nobody could master her correct name.
 But it's simple enough if it is written phonetically.
Mareekcn Weslo- that's it. '
But her name is spelled Mariechen Wehselau, the "girl with the laughing eyes."
She seems a little proud of her pseudonym.

Miss Wehselau is Hawaii's champion girl swimmer.
She is merely a girl - a big girl - for she has just turned 18
Miss Wehselau arrived in Sydney by the Makura to-day.
She will appear in the women's State championships at the Domain on January 31 (100 yards), Coogee Aquarium on February 4 (440 yards), and Manly Baths on February 7 (300 metres scratch race and 100 yards backstroke).
Miss Wehselau is firmly constructed  and tall.
She holds two world's records, and represented America at the Olympiad.
She has been a competitive swimmer only four years, and is a member of the Honolulu Outrigger Canoe Club.
She is champion of Hawaii from 50 yards to half a mile free style.
She is also a backstroke and breaststroke performer.
...
SURF-BOARD RIDER

Prior to the Olympic Games Miss Wehselau had never been away from Hawaii.
She is a skilful surf-board rider, and to this exercise is attributed her splendid development.
The young champion is 15 pounds heavier than she should be, and will have to train thoroughly to get into proper form again.
She had trial swims at Suva and Auckland,
Miss Wehselau had finished her schooling at Hawaii, and begun study at a business college.
The swimmer was accompanied by her manageress, Mrs. B. Fullard-Leo, who. is remarkably capable, having been in charge for eight years of every branch of amateur athletics at Hawaii.

Trove
1925 'HAWAIIAN GIRL', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 10 January, p. 6. (LATE SPORTING), viewed 15 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222934216
Sunday Times
Sydney,  11 January 1925, page 12.
TOPICAL EVENTS TOLD BY THE CAMERA
This was not on the programme at the swimming
carnival yesterday at the Domain Baths, but it
proved a funny event all the same.
'Sweeky' Wehselau, champion lady swimmer of
Hawaii, who arrived yesterday by the Makura,
 takes a peek at Sam Kahanamoku through the
business end of a cinecamera.
Trove
1925 'TOPICAL EVENTS TOLD BY THE CAMERA', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 11 January, p. 12. (Social and Magazine Section), viewed 15 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128161559
The Sydney Morning Herald
Monday 12 January 1925, page 13.
SURF LIFE-SAVING.
KAHANAMOKU AT MANLY

Sam Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian champion swimmer, was the guest yesterday of the North Steyne Surf Life Saving Club, and a large number of members of the club and their friends were present to welcome him.
Kahanamoku was received by Mr. D. Love (pictured) on behalf of the club..
The Mayor of Manly (Alderman Samuels) extended a welcome to the municipality, and Mr. O. G. H. Merrett spoke on behalf of the Manly District Sporting Union.

During the morning a first-class surf race took place, there being about 30 competitors, Kakanamoku won easily, swimming leisurely the whole distance.
A. Morton (Manly) was second.
There was also a surf boat race, in which North Steyne, Freshwater (two crews), Manly, and Curl Curl competed, the event being won by Freshwater A team.
The boats also gave a display of surf-shooting, and Kahanamoku gave an exhibition with a surf board.

Trove
1925 'SURF LIFE-SAVING.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 12 January, p. 13. , viewed 15 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16193031
The Sun
Sydney, Tuesday 13 January 1925, page 8.
HAWAIIANS BY RADIO
Sam and Miss Wehselau

The visiting swimmers from .Hawaii, Miss Mariechen Wehselau and Sam Kahanamoku, will be broadcast from Farmer's studio at 8.5 to-night.
Kahanamoku will have a chat to the listeners-in, and will then sing and play his ukulele.
Miss Wehselau will talk to her widespread audience of swimming and surf shooting.
At .5.15 this afternoon Kahanamoku will swim at the Domain Baths in his heat of the 220 yards championship of Australia, which is to be decided to-morrow night.
Trove
1925 'HAWAIIANS BY RADIO', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 13 January, p. 8. (FINAL EXTRA), viewed 15 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222947310
Tweed Daily
Murwillumbah, Friday 16 January 1925, page 4.
Mariesclien Wehselau astonished the crowd at Palm Beach on Sunday by her wonderful surf-board riding display.
One bather described her as "a fish that walks like a man."

Trove
1925 'SWIMMING.', Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW : 1914 - 1949), 16 January, p. 4. , viewed 15 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192592994
The Sun
Sydney, Tuesday 20 January 1925, page 4.

SURF LIFE SAVING
Two Big Carnivals
EXCITING BOAT RACES
(By K.C.W.)

Two big surf carnivals will be held during the holiday week-end-  the first at Manly on Saturday, and the second at Freshwater on Monday.
Big entries have been received for both, and at Manly on Saturday over 400 competitors will strip for beach and water events.
The outstanding water event will be the surf teams' race, which is the first event of the "Johnny Walker" surf boat competition.
Excellent surf swimming should be witness as many of Sydney's best swimmers will take part.
The open surf race is another event which promises well, and for which exceptionally heavy entries have been received, but most popular of all, as far as the public is concerned, are the surf boat races, and plenty of excitement seems assured in these races, as all the best crews are competing.
Freshwater always draws a large crowd,and its carnival an Monday is bound to be successful.

FILMING SURF SCENES

Surfing is an Australian national sport and pastime, but in Canada it is unknown, but  on Sunday the Fox camera man had his cinematograph at Manly and secured some unique motion pictures of surf boat, surfboard, and body shooting for distribution in Canada and America.
 He also took some interesting pictures of the Life-Savlng Club boys doing their famous "duck" dive, which consists of a running dleo at full speed into very shallow water.
Some of the more daring perform the dlve almost solely on the wet sand.

Trove
1925 'SURF LIFE SAVING', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 20 January, p. 4. (FINAL EXTRA), viewed 15 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222948776
Northern Star
Lismore, Wednesday 21 January 1925, page 10.
SYDNEY SOCIETY
...
Mariechen Wehselau (her name is pronounced Marceshen Wayslow) has not a "slow way" in the water and many puns have been hurled at her of course in consequence of her name.
Palm Beach saw a bevy of nymphs with Mariechen as the star on Sunday last.
Her surf board performances astonished everybody, even Adrian Curlewis, who is supposed to be an expert at the game of surf riding.
But what everybody seems to forget in talking about surf boards is that a coral reef makes all the difference in beaches and the surf that .thunders thereon.
A reef possesses the right kind of breakers, the roll is much longer.

Trove
1925 'SYDNEY SOCIETY', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 21 January, p. 10. , viewed 15 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93473009
Western Mail
Perth, Thursday, 22 January 1925, page 6.
HAWAII'S POPULAR PASTIME.
Sam Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian swimmer who is at present visiting Sydney, demonstrating his prowess on the surf-board at North Bondi.


Trove
1925 'No title', Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), 22 January, p. 6. (PICTORLAL SECTION), viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37819618

Reprinted in Le miroir des sports, Paris, February 25, 1925, below.
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
Saturday, 31 January 1925, page 6.
NEWCASTLE SURF CARNIVAL
Record entries have been received for the Newcastle Surf Life-saving Club's annual surt carnival on February 7.
Eleven Sydney clubs will be represented, and the parade will be participated in by seventeen clubs.
Surf boat crews are entered from Manly, Freshwater, Cronulla and Coogee Clubs.
The seven leading surf board exponents will be present, and the champion of Australia, Claude West, of Manly Club, will make
his first appearance since 1921.
The water and beach events should prove highly attractive.
The leading surf swimmers of Australia will be representing their clubs.
The surf boat race will be contested between the eight Newcastle and Sydney crews.

Trove
1925 'NEWCASTLE SURF CARNIVAL', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), 31 January, p. 6, viewed 29 Mar 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137479003
Sunday Times
Sydney, 1 February 1925, page 3.
In Surf on Suffrage

Surfer writes: "Among the thousands who dotted the surf at a Sydney seaside resort last week-end was a stout lady who waved her hefty arms when she saw a roller, and invariably struck a person smaller than herself.
Inconsiderate persons shot the breakers and knocked others about.
Two brainless youths rode on surf boards and put the breeze up all and sundry, but it was a middle-aged man who did most damage.
He was wearing a 'bookie's' ring, and in turning caught me on the leg with it.
We have inspectors stationed on the beach.
What, about one in. the water?"

Trove
1925 'In Surf on Suffrage', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 1 February, p. 3. , viewed 15 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128164142
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
Friday 6 February 1925, page 4.
NEWCASTLE SURF CARNIVAL

The Palm Beach surf boat is entered for tomorrow's surf carnival at Newcastle, and will be manned by the same crew that brought the boat along the coast last season.
In addition to local clubs, Manly, Freshwater, Coogee, and Cronulla will compete.
The special train will arrive in Newcastle at 10.40 tonight, and the Sydney surfers will be met by local officials.
The surf boards and three boats will arrive by steamer from Sydney tomorrow.
Owing to the record entries, a punctual start will be made with the programme.
Among the surf events is the Johnny Walker surf alarm reel race, virtually the championship of Australia
Claude Ward is the holder of the title, and all the Sydney expert belt-men will be competing.
Surf relay, junior alarm reel. open surf, and varied beach events are also included.

Trove
1925 'SWIMMING.', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 6 February, p. 4. , viewed 15 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137485154
Sunday Times
Sydney, 8 February 1925, page 11.
SURFING
...
MENACE OF WILD MEN.

It is time municipal councils followed the lead set by Randwick and prohibit the use of surf boards on the metropolitan beaches.
Coogee is free and so ought others to be unless the councils can see their way to reserve an area for the board experts.
Last week-end I could not help smiling when a youth on a board ran into a stout gent, who was wading out at Bondi, but the old gentleman didn't smile, and what he called that youth was a public outrage.

Trove
1925 'SURFING', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 8 February, p. 11. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128163725
The Brisbane Courier
Wednesday, 11 February 1925, page 13.
Miss Marleschen Wehselau, the famous Hawaiian swimmer, photographed
standing against her surf-board.








Trove
1925 'No title', The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 11 February, p. 13. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20907044

The Telegraph
Brisbane,  21 February 1925, page 10.

CHILDREN CORNER
(By Malcolm Justins, 14 years.)
"Down by the sea.
That's the place for me."

My sister, brother, and I certainty agreed with this little rhyme when, after a Journey of  3 hours by train and then a short ride in a motor-bus, we arrived at Burleigh Heads.
And then! oh, what a glorious time we had!
The ceaseless roar of the surf breaking on the silver sands seemed to call us to it, and many "a dip in the brink"we enjoyed.
Oh! How delightful it was to shoot the foaming breakers on a surf board, and what fun it was ducking and chasing one another.
But the surf is only one of Burleigh's many attractions and we fully utilised all of them for our pleasure.

Trove
1925 'CHILDREN CORNER', The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), 21 February, p. 10. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article178387834
Sydney Mail
Wednesday, 25 February 1925, page 8  and 9.

Life-Savers of the Surf
The Rise of the Surf Life-Saving Association of Australia : Its Work and Service
By Spartacus Smith

...
The surf board is another instrument coming more and more into use.
You will see men riding the combers on them, some times standing upright - like bronzed gods of the surf riding the waves- a fine sight!
The life-savers practise the sport with a view to its becoming one of the valuable instruments of the work it is now, in fact.
Many are skilled with it, and plenty of rescues have been effected when the bathers have been carried beyond the reach of the line, which is 400 yards.
One of the proficients is Claud West, of Manly, the permanent man on duty, keeping watch during the week-days when the members are at their businesses.
 He has brought in a great many bathers in the last five years, including a Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munroe Ferguson, now Viscount Novar), who found himself one day out abreast of the rocks and was helped back.
He makes the board extremely useful, and has done some good work with it.
Thus the sport so delightful to watch at the carnivals is removed to the realms of high utility.

The surf boat, now standardised, was constructed from a design by experts on such mailers.
It is built strongly to fit it for encounter with heavy seas, and some good rescues have, been effected.
They go out beyond the swimming range, when it is found that the reel and line with the human being at the end is unable to reach far enough.
The boats are a unique feature in surf life-saving, and they provide . the most thrilling spectacles in their races at surf carnivals.

THE SURF BOARD FOR LIFE-SAVING.

Claud West , a life-saver stationed at Manly, is an expert in the use of the surf board, which is sometimes used to go out to a bather in distress.
The picture on the left shows the swimmer going out; in the other he is coming in with a 'rescue.'

Trove
1925 'Life-Savers of the Surf', Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), 25 February, p. 9. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159720700
Le miroir des sports,
Paris, Wednesday, February 25, 1925, issue 246.
French article that gives credit to Duke for the exhibition at Bondi, instead of Sam.
Noted by Hervé Manificat, in the Surf Blurb, May 2016.


Referee
Sydney, Wednesday 4 March 1925, page 14.
SAM WINS AND LOSES.

What Sam Kahanamoku lost on the swings he made up on the roundabouts at Albury.
He lost the 100 yards handicap in 64sec to D. Weir, of Narrandera, whom he conceded 7sec.
H. Roxburgh (4sec) was third.
 Partnered by Ruby Small, of Aubury, Sam won the 120 yards brace relay handicap from scratch in 77 seconds.
He also won the 220 yards championship of Riverina in 2min 40sec.
He spent Sunday in the surf at Bondi,and left by train last night for Wellington.

Trove
1925 'GREAT SWIM BY MISS WEHSELAU', Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), 4 March, p. 14. , viewed 15 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127570527
The Shoalhaven Telegraph
Wednesday 11 March, page 4.
SURF BATHING.

With the object of stimulating interest in surf bathing and helping to establish clubs and up-to-date life saving methods, or improving any facilities that might be in existence on the beaches of Kiama, Shellharbor, and Greenwell Point, an instructional team of surf life savers is being specially despatched from Sydney to this area during tie Easter holidays.
.
The team comprises 8 members, together with a manager and a publicity officer, and will arrive at Kiama on April 9th.
Each member of the team is an expert surf swimmer and instructor in life saving, and first class exhibitions of the work will be given on the beaches mentioned.
These displays will be supplemented by surf races, surf shooting, and,if arrangements can be completed for ihe supply of boards, exhibitions of surf riding as indulged in at Waikiki beach, Honolulu, and on Sydney beaches.
The Surf life Saving Association of Australia if defraying all the expense of the tour, which is being
?--.;-.;.:-v--'-.-made fotv the interest and Icuefit of
. residents of the locality, ar:d it is
hoped that -Use displays will be. well
attended. : - ?
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This step is the outcome of a visit by Mr. W. V. Craven, honorary chief instructor of the Association, to the South Coast last year.
He reported on the facilities for life saving that existed on the beaches, and, generally, they were not sufficient to provide that measure of safety which the Surf Life Saving Association desires that all bathers should have wherever possible.
The following are the members of the team .and the various clubs to which they belong in Sydney: —
Adrian Curlewis, registrar of the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia; captain of the Palm Beach Life Saving Club, and an expert surf swimmer and surf board rider; son of Judge Curlewis, of Sydney.
J. Black, captain of North Narrabeen Surf Life Saving Club, member of Pyrmont Amateur Swimming Club, expert water polo player (State representative), and one of the best surf swimmers in the metropolitan area.
Geoffrey Bland and Paul Ryan, both first-class members of the North .Steyne Surf Life Saving Club, all round atheletes and surf swimmers, possessing most of the life saving awards of the Royal Life Saving Society, and all those of the Surf Life Saving Association.
Bland is also an excellent board shooter, and both are extremely popular members of .their:club.
Noel Hayten, chief instructor
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- ? ui- tuu ouuyue jjliu ; v^iuu j 'lit;
holds a lientenanJcy in the militia, and
? ' . is .siDecialh: 'skilled in first aid and general ambulance work.
A. D'Elmaine, the youngest member of the team, and one of the best all-round members of the Freshwater Life Saving 'Club; captain of the junior surf
life boat crew and first-class beltman.
D. Lorking, an . instructor of the Manly Life Saving Club, and prominent worker.
Expert board shooter and surf swimmer
- . A - Tipper, always
- .prominent for Bronte Life Saving
- Club in competitions. Good swim
- -? mer, and holder of all the awards of 0
the Association. Mr.'-J. Burke (man- ^
- .ager of the team)', life member of the
? ' . Bronte Club ; examiner, in chief % of .
the Surf Life Saving Association, and
one of the most popular.- members. J[..
McRorie, accompanying the' team as ??-.:
- \ ?. ipress olficer, acts in this capacity for. -j|
. tlie ?? Association.-- ? Ex-captain of 'the
? Coogee Life Saving Club. |
Tlie death occurred on Sunday
night of Mr. M, O'Donnell, of the
'?auctioneering firm of O'Djv.nell and
Stumbles, Wollongong, at the 'ear ly
_ : age of 42 'years. Dec-iasod was a
? member of one of the b».7it known and
? - most highly-esteemed families in the
. ..lllav/arra district. He - v a?, one- of
tin1 live wires of Wollo'cgon and had
haen for some years an active mem
^ ' ber of the Agricultural Society and
jiiso president- for at lo x it: one torm.

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1925 'SURF BATHING.', The Shoalhaven Telegraph (NSW : 1881 - 1937), 11 March, p. 4. , viewed 15 Apr 2016,
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Referee
Sydney, Wednesday 18 March 1925, page 14.
HAWAIIAN SWIMMERS SAIL FOR HOME
...
Water slides off Sam as it does off other Hawaiians, and therefore he does not feel cold after swimming.
Later in the evening he gave an exhibition of swimming, and then - still in his wet costume - watched races from the gallery.
At Bondi recently he remained in the surf for four hours.
All the while Sam's broad smile shows tha the is enjoying himself immensely.
...
His brother, the Duke, is at Los Angeles.
He enjoyed the surf in Sydney, and wishes he had been able to reproduce his real form on a board.
"Surf does not roll in nearly as evenly here as in Hawaii," he concluded, "and some of your men who shape well on the poor boards you have here, would shine on our beaches."

Trove
1925 'HAWAIIAN SWIMMERS SAIL FOR HOME', Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), 18 March, p. 14. , viewed 15 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127571203
The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser
Saturday 4 April 1925, page 2.
LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The surf life saving instructional team from Sydney is to arrive here on Thursday next and during the visit Kiama is to be made its headquarters.
Daily visits for the purpose of giving demonstrations on other beaches will be made as follows:-Crookhaven Heads, Good Friday; Shellharbour, Easter Saturday; Gerringong, Easter Sunday; and Kiama, Easter Monday.
 If time permits more than one display will be given at Kiama.
A feature of all the demonstrations will be an exhibition of surf shooting on surf boards about 8 feet long, at which Messrs. Adrian Curlewis, Geofrey Bland and D. Lorking are experts.

Trove
1925 'LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.', The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser (NSW : 1863 - 1947), 4 April, p. 2, viewed 15 August, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10204810
The Newcastle Sun
Tuesday, 16 June 1925, page 1.
SAVED TWELVE
NEWPORT (California). Monday.
By the bravery and quick work o[ Duke Kahanamoku, the Hawaiian swimming champion, who led three others, 12 persons were saved from drowning.
When the fishing yacht The Thelma capsized off Newport beach, the famous swimmer made six trips on a surf board to the sinking craft.
On his own he saved six, and with three other swimmers saved six more.
Finally, alone he recovered the bodies of the five who were drowned.
A huge crowd on the beach applauded his meritorious performance.
Trove
1925 'SAVED TWELVE', The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), 16 June, p. 1. , viewed 04 Apr 2016,
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The Sun
Sydney, Tuesday 18 August 1925, page 9.
BONDI'S BEST
The Geuches on the Beaches
KICK FOR WAIKIKI
Honolulu, a great place, but the vaunted beach at Waikiki can't compare with Sydney benches.
Bondi's best!

This is the opinion of Mr. und Mrs.Edwin Geuch who, returned by the Sierra to-day, after a holiday in Honolulu.
"It's a lovely spot," said Mr. Geuch,"Everything is wonderful, except Waikiki Beach (pronounced Vi-klcky) which, is the most overboomed beach in the world.
There's no beach there to speak of."
"But Honolulu's a great place for a holiday," he added, "though there a dollar goes like a shilling does here."
While the Geaches were in Honolulu they met Madame Galli Curci.
"She came to give one concert, but she stayed for ten days, and was the life and soul of the Moana Hotel.
She did a lot of surf-board riding, too."

Trove
1925 'BONDI'S BEST', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 18 August, p. 9. (FINAL EXTRA), viewed 04 May 2016,
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Sunday Times
Sydney, 11 October 1925, page 8.
SWIMMING
Don Chalmers in Form

Manly Life-Saving Club held events on the beach yesterday.
Don Chalmers, the young swimmer who won the mile title of New South Wales last season, was just beaten in the junior handicap surf race by P. Brewer, who was on 20sec.
The winner got a shoot and finished well.
S. James (10 sec) was third.
F. Lough (5 sec) won tne senior handicap surf race from T. Farrell (10), and R. Ford (15).
The surf board race went to A. Lyons, who beat C. McAllister and F. Lough.
F. Davies and J. Davies won the wheelbarrow race, and the 300yds beach relay went to L. Pym, T. Bennett, and A. Houston.

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1925 'SWIMMING', Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1930), 11 October, p. 8. , viewed 04 May 2016,
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Northern Star
Lismore, Monday 12 October, page 4.

SURFER'S CATCH

The fishing season has commenced, and the best story up to the present comes from Byron-Bay.
The incident is vouched for by a number of Lismore residents.
It is stated that a member of the Byron Bay Surf Life Saving Club was coming in on a surfing board yesterday when the corner of the board caught under the gill of a French mackerel or kingfish.
The fish was carried right on to the beach, and was dragged out of the water with the board, being then purchased by a Lismore dealer.
The fish weighed 221bs, an extraordinary weight for this long, thin species of fish.

Trove
1925 'SURFER'S CATCH', Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), 12 October, p. 4. , viewed 04 May 2016,
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The Sun
Sydney, Sunday, 8 November 1925, page 34.
Society
...
Mrs. Leslie Walford, of Mona-road, Darling Point, who returned recently from Honolulu, enjoyed her stay at the "Moana," where, on Sunday nights, there are temperamental concerts of Hawaiian music given in a half-light.
Mrs. Walford also delighted in riding in on the waves on a surf board, and she has brought hack to Sydney a board to try in our own surf.

Trove
1925 'Society', The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), 8 November, p. 34. , viewed 04 May 2016,
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
Saturday 14 November 1925, page 3.
SURF ENTHUSIASTS

Inspired by the great success and popularity of surf bathing on Sydney's beaches, a number of Melbourne sea bathing enthusiasts is endeavouring to create a love for surf bathing on our beaches.
Even the surf board has been introduced at the popular bathing places on the few really hot days we have experienced lately, but so far surfing has not become popular, owing no doubt to the fact that the waves reaching our shores are seldom big.

Trove
1925 'SURF ENTHUSIASTS', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 14 November, p. 3. , viewed 04 May 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139858370
The Daily Mail
Brisbane, Saturday 26 December 1925, page 9.
AT THE TWEED
...
The Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Live Saving Society is staging a varied programme of events which should please everybody, and on New Year's Day the Border-Murwiliumbah Scottish societies will hold a monster Caledonian gathering at the Tweed.

On the different beaches the ever watchful, and always-ready beach patrols, associated, with the different clubs are on duty, but happily their services
have not yet been required.
A good surf is running, to the delight of the surfers, and the big surf boards are in evidence.

Trove
1925 'AT THE TWEED', The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1903 - 1926), 26 December, p. 9. , viewed 04 May 2016,
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The Brisbane Courier
Monday 28 December 1925, page 5.
UNALLOYED JOY.

...
On the fringe of the crowd of bathers were scores of surfers who preferred the pleasure to be derived from speeding shorewards in front of the incoming combers on a board, and away in the distance one noticed the more venture-some users of the big "Duke" surf boards, who ride their big boards like Tritons, sometimes standing erect, but, as often as not, balancing on their heads, the envy of their less expert brethren and the admiration of the crowd of onlookers.
Now and, again a venturesome bather swam out to the distant sand bank in search of the big breakers in which the expert "shootist" finds his greatest delight, and was followed by others, who were recalled by the patrolman whose slogan is "safety first."

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1925 'UNALLOYED JOY.', The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 28 December, p. 5. , viewed 04 May 2016,
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Geelong Advertiser
Wednesday 30 December 1925, page 8.
OCEAN GROVE
The holidays passed off very gaily here.
A euchre party and dance were held in the hall on Saturday night, and were very well attended.
The floor was excellent and the music first class.
A good deal of bathing was indulged in, and surf boards are becoming quite plentiful.

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1925 'OCEAN GROVE', Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1926), 30 December, p. 8. , viewed 04 May 2016,
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