Paid beach
patrol« are in attendance daily, and no serious
accidents have been re-
ported.
Trove
1926 'COOLANGATTA AND TWEED HEADS.', The Brisbane
Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 9 January, p. 9. ,
viewed 14 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20991855
Geraldton Guardian
WA, Tuesday 19 January 1926, page 2.
EN PASSANT
...
There is no drawback to the Back Beach these days.
As yet no one is
surf-bored.
The aspirations
of the Royal Commission soar high.
They are after our prices.
To promote
interest in local films we suggest Manager Wheat
show a slow motion film of an hour's work on the
harbour.
This could take
the form of an eighteen part serial.
The opinions of
Geraldton 's beachcombers to the contrary, surfing
is not a recent fad
Who denies that
Tennyson's 'Lotus Eaters' were not handling
refractory surf-boards when came the
lines:
"Courage, he
said, and pointed toward the land,
This mounting
wave will roll us shoreward soon."
Trove
1926 'EN PASSANT', Geraldton
Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928), 19 January, p. 2. ,
viewed 14 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67164685
Truth
WA, Saturday 23 January 1926, page 9.
SURF-BOARDS.
At a rival resort surfing suddenly popular and the
sudden popularity of the new sport found the
younger set unprepared, but not unresourceful, as
every boarding-house
proprietor could tell you, for ironing-boards,
washing boards
and paste boards all disappeared as if
by magic
Shops were sold
out of washing boards as soon as it was
discovered that three of them lashed together made a
tolerable board.
The brain wave of the lot, however, was that of a
young man who visited the local undertaker's and
there bespoke for himself a coffin lid of seasoned oak and more (sic, bore?) his trophy off in triumph.
Trove
1926 'Barbers and Flappers’ Flips.', Truth (Perth,
WA : 1903 - 1931), 23 January, p. 9. , viewed 14
Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208129810
Sunday
Times
Sydney, 31 January 1926, page 11.
THE SURF
TITLES
PROUDFOOT'S HARD LUCK
Another happy
spectator was a pretty girl. who lay full length on
a surf
board
alongside, the buoys.
For some time
she remained there as shark bait, but, after the R
and R. event, she changed her spots.
Newcastle
Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate
Wednesday 3 February, p. 9.
SWIMMING.
The annual surf carnival, conducted by
the Newcastle Surf Club, will take place on
February 13.
Entries closed
on Monday, and the number easily constitutes a
record.
Fifteen Sydney
clubs will be represented, upwards of 300
metropolitan life-savers visiting Newcastle by
boat and special train for the occasion.
The number of
teams taking part in the grand parade will number
twenty.
Boats entered for the "Parnell" surf boat race
include North Steyne (champion crew of Australia),
Manly, Newport. Narrabeen, and Palm Beach.
The last named
will again row their boat from Sydney to Newcastle.
This will be the
first visit of Newport and Queenscliffe
clubs to this city.
Surf
board
riders from Sydney numnber six, and comprise the
leading exponents in Australia.
Trove
1926 'SWIMMING.', Newcastle Morning Herald and
Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , 3
February, p. 9. , viewed 14 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137509406
The
Newcastle Sun
Wednesday
3 February 1926, page 4.
SURF
CARNIVAL
...
The six expert surf board riders from Sydney
will take part.
Their exhibition
has always been feature of previous programmes.
It is claimed that they have more than equalled
the skill of Duke Kahanomoku, who introduced the
surf
board
to Australia.
The Newcastle Sun
Thursday 4 February 1926, page 5.
Surf
Carnival
The annual surf carnival,
conducted by Newcastle Surf
Club, has been for some years acclaimed as
the leading function of the kind in
Australia.
Many
thousands of people who line the ocean
front each year are invariably impressed
by tho exhibitions in life belt, boat, surf
board, and canoe, by the leading surf
life-savers of New South Wales.
...
Features
of the programme are the Parnell surf
boat race and exhibitions by the
champion surf board
riders of Australia. including Claude
West,
"Steve"
Dowllng, "Ozzy" Downing, E.McAllister,
of Manly, and experts from North
Steyne and Bondi.
Trove
1926 'Surf Carnival', The Newcastle Sun
(NSW : 1918 - 1954), 4 February, p. 5.
, viewed 14 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163375673
The Daily Mail
Brisbane, Thursday 4 February 1926, page
8.
Surf
Boards.
It is impossible to
avoid admiring good surf boards
Many a time I
have missed a breaker and wallowed in
unexpected foam, simply because I was
gazing in meditative admiration at the
surf
board
somebody, else, was using.
There
is to begin with, something beautiful|
about the shape; the beauty arising
from the adaptability of an object to
its use.
Looking at a surf
board, can you
not see its use as object once!
Can
you fail to imagine the human forms
splayed over it in ecstasy, and the
humming waters that overwhelm it!
Can
you fail to imagine this, I ask!
But then again, can you really resist
the belief that the board is .a
little ironing board, taking a
holiday from its rightful job.
Sometimes
I even think these ironing-boards have
a frail, homesick look.
Someday
I'm going to coax one to follow me and
let it come into my kitchen, yes, on
my very kitchen table.
I
shall comfort it with a little blanket
and adorn it with a little sheet.
It
shall know the pressure of the hot
iron and the delight of treating
elegant flimsies as they should be
treated. .
But I have not yet rescued a board and
given it a home.
I am
not quite sure how to make friends with
one.
Indeed I think that most boards I have met
this season are definitely suspicious
of me, not to say hostile to me.
Only
yesterday, for instance, while I
was having my bathe in an innocent
and mild way, staring, as often
happens at a beautiful, polished,
varnished board
enslaved by some unworthy human
being, another board
simply attacked me in small of the
back!
I
ask the general public what
percentage of surfers
in each hundred yards of surf
ought to bo allowed to use boards?
How
many small of backs ought to be
kept safe in case their owners
need them later on!
- Shalott.
Trove
1926 'FROM OUR WINDOW', The Daily Mail
(Brisbane, Qld. : 1903 - 1926), 4
February, p. 8. , viewed 14 Apr 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220625383
