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The Australian Women's Weekly
Wednesday 2 January 1963, page 47S (Supplement- Teenagers' Weekly).

Seeing the world on surfboards
By KERRY YATES

Three young Sydney men have formed a successful partnership with the inviting slogan "See the world on a surfboard."

THE partners are Paul Witzig, Peter Clifton, and Paul Quiney, all 21 and all expert surfboard riders.
The firm, Surfing Promotions, was formed about nine months ago as the Australian agency for an American film producer, Bruce Brown, of Dana Point, California.

"Bruce has a large studio in Hollywood," said Peter, "and travels the world shooting scenes for his surfing movies.
"He has already had three outstanding successes with 'Slippery When Wet,' 'Surf Crazy,' and 'Barefoot Adventure.' "

Paul Witzig met Bruce Brown in Hawaii two years ago.
Paul was on his way to join his parents for a holiday in Europe, and Bruce was filming "Slippery When Wet."

Paul, who owned his first surfboard when he was eight, said he couldn't pass through Hawaii without trying its famous surf, so he stopped off for two weeks.

EXAMINING a sequence in the film
"Surfing Hollow Days" are, from left.
Peter Clifton, Paul Witzig,
and Paul Quiney.

"I stayed with some Californian surfboard riders in a beach house at Sunset Beach," he said, "and Bruce was living next door.
"I got to know many of the local Hawaiian and Californian riders and they wanted to know all about Australia.
"Bruce was very interested in our surfing and I offered to sponsor him on a trip to Australia to show some of his movies."
Bruce accepted the offer and this was the beginning of Surfing Promotions.

Last tour big success

After Paul had arranged showings and publicity, Bruce toured the east coast of Australia last summer with "Bare- foot Adventure* and "Slippery When Wet."

The tour was a great success.
Paul made enough money to cover Bruce's air fare to Australia and all touring expenses, a reasonable profit, and still had something over as working captial for new ventures.

While he was in Australia Bruce filmed part of his latest film, "Surfing Hollow Days."
A full-color, feature-length movie, it stars surfing champions of Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, California, Mexico, and Florida.

To a surfer, a "hollow day" is a day when the waves curve up and curl completely over before crashing on the shore - thus forming a hollow tunnel of water.

The film mostly features board-riding, but there are also exciting scenes of body-surfing, sailing, and water-skiing.

Surfers play with shark

One dramatic sequence shows surfers at Santa Barbara playing "Nip and Tuck" with a 15ft. shark.

Paul Witzig appears a few times in the film, riding huge waves at beaches on the north coast of N.S.W.

Peter Clifton stars in the water-skiing scenes, and is also shown "free-planing" - which is skiing behind a motor-boat using a surfboard (waxed heavily to stop the skier from slipping) instead of skis.

Paul Witzig asked Peter Clifton and Paul Quiney to join him in Surfing Promotions to bring this film to Australia.

"Surfing Hollow Days" opened in Sydney a few weeks ago and the firm has arranged 60 showings in Queensland, N.S.W., Victoria, and South Australia during the next few months.

Peter and Paul Quiney have been riding surfboards at Sydney beaches for about five years and met Paul Witzig while surfing.

Although Surfing Promotions means only part-time work so far, the boys signed contracts with Bruce Brown, registered their partnership, and set up a modern office at Newport (a beach suburb on Sydney's north side), where they employ a secretary to do typing and answer inquiries.

(Photograph) EXAMINING a sequence in the film "Surfing Hollow Days" are, from left. Peter Clifton, Paul Witzig, and Paul Quiney.

Paul Witzig has just completed fourth year Architecture at Sydney University.

As head man and organiser of the firm, he flew to the States a few months ago to make official arrangements with Bruce Brown to bring "Surfing Hollow Days" to Australia.

When the film arrived in Sydney he had to arrange for it to be cleared through Customs and the Censorship Board.

(Photograph) PHIL EDWARDS, of California, riding a huge wave at Sunset Beach, Hawaii.
Phil, who is recognised as the best surfboard-rider in the world, stars in the film which is now being shown in Australia.

Peter, a copywriter for a Sydney advertising agency, is the Press agent and publicity officer for Surfing Promotions.

He has organised an extensive advertising campaign in local newspapers and national surfing magazines, designed posters and pamphlets, and has arranged radio and television interviews to promote the film.

Paul Quiney is studying accountancy and works as a junior accountant in a city office.
He handles the legal side of the firm, the financial worries, and the theatre bookings.

Surf safari with film

The firm owns its own film projection unit and employs Peter Hamill, 20, a surfboard builder, to run the projector at every showing.

Paul Witzig, on university holidays, will tour with the film for the whole run.
And Peter and Paul Quiney will take their annual holidays to help him.

The boys are making the tour in an old car, with four surfboards tied on the roof and posters for the film plastered all over the body.

"On all our trips we keep a lookout, and Stop whenever we find a good surf running," said Paul Witzig.
"Our business trip is a surf safari, too."

The boys are not drawing weekly wages from their firm, but plan to divide the profit at the end of the tour, leaving enough in "kitty" to finance their next enterprise.

In this way they hope to develop Surfing Promotions into a profitable full-time business.

PHIL EDWARDS, of California,
riding a huge wave at Sunset Beach, Hawaii.

Phil, who is recognised as the best surfboard-rider
in the world, stars in the film which is now
being shown in Australia.

Printed previously in Australian Women's Weekly
Wednesday 7 March 1962, page 5.

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1963 'Seeing the world on surfboards', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 2 January, p. 3. (Teenagers' Weekly), viewed 01 Sep 2014,
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The Canberra Times
3 January 1963, page 20.

SURFBOARD WIN TO AUSTRALIAN

HONOLULU, Wednesday (A.A.P.-Reuter)

Australian surfer, Bernard Farrelly of Sydney won the world surfboard riding title to-day.

He captured the championship from nine of the most experienced surfers in the world at the end of an exciting international tournament at the famed Makaha Beach in Hawaii.

Experts who watched the final said Farrelly won because the conditions suited him better than the other finalists, who were all from Hawaii or California.

The finalists had to wait two days until tournament officials decided the waves were good enough to make surfing possible.

Farrelly showed remarkable control in his series of rides, building up his points tally, based on the length of ride and form displayed in catching a wave.

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1963 'SURFBOARD WIN TO AUSTRALIAN', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 3 January, p. 20. , viewed 24 Aug 2017,
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The Australian Women's Weekly
Wednesday 6 March 1963, page 75S (Supplement- Teenagers' Weekly).

The "Midget" does Hawaiian ... and wins world title.
By Kerry Yates

Bernard Farrelley, the 18-year-old Sydney boy who recently won the International Surfboard Riding Championship in Hawaii, became a film star at the same time.

The film, being produced by another Sydney surfer, Bob Evans, is due for release in Australia within the next few weeks,
Benard, a lanky, blue-eyed lad, is known to his friends as "Midge," and his nickname inspired the title of the film: "Midget Goes Hawaiian."
Evans, who edits a surfing magazine and has aleady produced two other feature-length surfing movies and several shorts for television, chose Midge as the star after he had won several local surfboard championships.
Work on the film began last March.
Bob, Midge, and other expert board-riders visited the best surfing beaches on Australia's east coast to record sequences for the first half of the film.
Bob then organised a team to represent Australia at the international Surfing Championships held annually at Makaha Beach, Hawaii.
Three other Sydney boys, David Jackman Mick McMahon, and Barry Cardiff, joined Bob and Midge to form the team, and they flew to Hawaii just before Christmas.
The surfing championships are not held on any set day, only on days when a good surf is running at Makaha.

Race Delayed.

When the plane on which the boys and their surfboards were travelling set down in Hawaii, they heard that the semi-finals were in progress that day at the beach 30 miles away,
An urgent phone call to contest officials delayed the last semi-final so that the Australians could compete.
The boys hailed a taxi, the driver loaded their surfboards on the roof and they made a dash for it.
At Makaha, traffic police escorted them through the crowds and thev were cheere by competitors and spectators as they hurried to the dressing-sheds to change.

The waves were really big, and the Australians were competeting against riders from California, Peru, and Hawaii in front of spectators from all over the world.
The contest is judged by experts standing on a tower high above the sand.
Points are given for length of ride, ability to manoeuvre, and good sports-manship.

As leader of the team, Bob said all the Australians surfed the 15ft. waves like veterans.
"Midge was outstanding," he said, "'and we were not surprised when he was selected for the finals.
"These were held a few days later.
Unfortunately, the waves were much smaller, breaking at three or four feet.
"Most riders paddled a long way out in the hope of picking up a few big ones, but they were out of luck.
"Midge adopted a now or never attitude, and moved to within 200 yards of the beach.
"'He cracked every wave that came along, large or small, and proved his skill so well that he was crowned champion of the year.
"We expected him to put on a good show, but winning the grand event was just wonderful."
The trophy Midge won was a statue of a surf rider and his board, carved from wood.

The presentation of this prize is a highlight of Bob's movie, which also shows Midge riding in the final.
This was the first time a competitor from a foreign nation had won the title - the highest honor in the surfing world.
Midge, who is a surfboard builder by trade, designed and made the two surfboards he took to Hawaii.
One is a light "hot-dog" board used for fast turning and trick riding.
The other is a heavier board for big seas.
The Australians shared a house on Sunset Beach, 40 miles from Honolulu.
They spent the next four or five weeks on a surf safari - travelling round the surfing beaches of Hawaii.
Bob was always on location, filming the adventures of the Sydney surfers as they rode big waves alongside the champions from Hawaii and California.
The boys are now back in Sydney, already saving for another trip.
Most of them hope to compete again next time, but Midge is determined that he will.
"I just must get back to Hawaii to defend my title," he said.

MIDGE FARRELLEY, with the trophy he won in Hawaii.
(Photograph Ron Church)

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1963 '"The Midget" goes Hawaiian... and wins world title', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 6 March, p. 3. (Teenagers' Weekly), viewed 09 Sep 2016,
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The Australian Women's Weekly

27 March 1963, page 9.

What IS a Surfie?

With discussions raging about Sydney's newest teenage groups, Surfies and Rockers, we asked Kerry Yates, one of our cadet journalists, to tell us what she knows about the cults.
I OWN a surfboard and spend much of my spare time riding the waves at different beaches.
I like to think of myself as a surfer, not a surfie.
Lately there's a big difference.
The true surfer hates the term Surfie, and can you blame him?
It has come to label all surfboard riders as young monsters who bleach their hair with sink-cleaners and chase away visitors from the beaches where they surf,
This is not so.
Riding has become THE sport for many hundreds of teenagers.
Sure, we have a common interest - a love of sun and surf - but we are not one big cult, as recent publicity makes out.
Every beach has its locals, who live nearby and usually surf on the same part of the beach all summer.
But an interesting thing about surfing is that you don't always stay at your own beach.
Every weekend the surf safari is on.
The really keen riders tie their surf-boards on to the roofs of cars and travel around in search of the best waves.
So if you happen to see a couple of hundred surf-board riders at one end of the beach, it's not a meeting of the Ku-Klux-Klan, it's just that the best surf is there.
Why do they seem to gather in groups in one part of the surf and sand?
Most beaches mark off special areas for riding boards, and if we ride "out of bounds" there's a chance of our boards being confiscated for a few weeks and even of our being fined.
The so-called Surfies seem to include all the teenagers with blond hair, long shorts, and bare feet who happen to be fond of riding surfboards.
Nowadays it seems to be a crime to be one of them.
Surfies are said to be guilty of using indecent language on the beaches, gatecrashing private parties, riding their boards into groups of body-surfers, and most recently brawling with another teenage group, namely, the Rockers.
But I think the boys and girls involved are just common larrikins in a new guise - that of the Surfie.
A Surfie usually bleaches his hair with peroxide, lemon juice, or even sink-cleaners for that sun-bleached out-door look which most real surfers acquire naturally.
But this is not really offensive - just immature.
Some buy surfboards and may even become good riders.
They wear cut-down jeans (they protect your knees and the insides of your legs from rubbing against the board), but the trouble is they never wear anything else, so they look untidy most of the time.
Only the other day I saw two boys coming out of the surf at Manly carrying their boards and wearing blond wigs.
The wigs were the synthetic ones that Sydney women buy in thousands, priced about 49/11.
The boys certainly proved the wigs were washable!
This was quite amusing and strictly for fun.
But it's no joke when Ho-dads help to brand all surf-board-riders as beach hoodlums.
(Ho-dads: Characters who try to surf without knowing how, or observing the unwritten rules. Nuisances.)
Now I'm not saying that all board-boys are fine, upstanding citizens.
There are many who just think surf, surf, surf, and do nothing else - day in, day out.
Many wag school, others take night and shift jobs, and lots work hard all winter to save enough money- all to surf as much as they can.
It's immature to put a sport ahead of a career, and let's hope they wake up to this before it's too late.
But even these boys seem to be well behaved and are annoyed at the recent confusion of surfboard-rider with beach bodgie.
The same goes for the Rockers - the rival gang to the Surfies.
The public is led to believe that all the Rockers, usually teenagers who live in Sydney's Western Suburbs, are toughs.
Rockers wear their hair long in flat-top or brush back styles and usually dress in T-shirts, jeans, leather jackets, and leather motor-cycle boots.
Their girl-friends, the Rockettes, wear their bleached white hair piled up in a teased beehive and dress in tight slacks (vivid colors), bulky jumpers, and rubber thongs (if they wear anything on their feet at all).

Rocker 'image'

They certainly give the impression that they are looking for fights when great mobs of them drive to the beaches on motor-bikes
or in hotted-up cars.
But some of the Rockers interviewed over recent weeks protest that they are not all louts, who carry knives and bike chains.
I am sure some boys and girls who are known as Rockers do not measure up to their bad reputations.
The boys say that if they ever go to dances or parties outside their own suburbs the girls they meet ignore them when they learn they come from the Western Suburbs.
People say that the Rockers are modern louts, just a further generation of the pushes and razor-gangs.
They blame broken homes, drunken parents, and poor education.
But this is not always so.
There are boys and girls from wealthy homes in most exclusive suburbs who behave just as badly as the worst Surfies and Rockers.
They attend big-time schools, they wear smart clothes, college-style hair- cuts, and many go to university.
These teenagers have lots of money and flash sports-cars, but they are still bored.
So a favorite pastime is to gatecrash parties - "just for the thrill of it."
They speak perfect English, and usually have such a confident "front" that they have no trouble getting into private parties and dances.
The same teenagers also hold wild parties - but in beautiful two-storeyed homes.
Where are their parents?
Half-way round the world on a business trip.

Poor excuse

The Rockers say there's not much to do in' the Western Suburbs.
They say they race cars and motor-bikes along the highways, gatecrash dances and parties - for lack of something better to do.
Well, really that's a poor excuse.
The Western Suburbs may lack beaches, but there are swimming pools, bowling-alleys,squash-courts, picture-shows, etc., just as at the beach suburbs.
In fact, the surfboard riders also have a problem.
Many lifesaving clubs are against special board clubs and seem to think they will lose members to this sport.
But some beaches have been able to come to successful arrangements.
In return for a clubhouse to leave surfboards, hold dances and film nights, the boardriders do patrol duty and help run the surf clubs.
But until all beaches come to some agreement, the board-boys also have to look round for something to de at night and when they can't go riding at the weekends.
Fun and entertainment don't just ' happen - they have to be made.
Anyone would be bored meeting the same people every day at the same corner or milkbar.
It would be easy to be led astray by someone offering a little excitement.
The Rockers could really put their cars and bikes to better use - as transport to a beach for a swim.
And I mean a swim.
It's only natural that Surfies become suspicious of the crowds who come to the beaches but don't go near the water.
So the local Surfies yell "Go home, tourists," and' the Rockers complain that they won't be told what to do by the Lemon Drop Kids (Surfies with bleached hair).
And so the war is on.']
The public are alarmed.
They read and hear that these are examples of Sydney's youth.
Well, they're BAD examples!

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1963 'What IS a Surfie?', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 27 March, p. 9. , viewed 01 Sep 2016,
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The Canberra Times
10 April 1963, page 2.

IN NEW SOUTH WALES THIS WEEK

Sydney councils ar ealarmed at the surfboard danger on their beaches.

This summer
                      hospitals have
                      treated scores of people injured by boards
                      while surfing.
 

Five councils.
                      Warringah, Manly,

                      Waverly, Randwickand

                      Sutherland, have joinedforces to prevent the list ofinjuries growing next season.

One
                      recommendation is that

                      surfboard
                      riders be made to
                      take out public risk insurance. 
 
Other recommendations referred to a specialcommittee for further consideration would compel a surfboard rider to:

• Comply with
                      special safety
                      regulations on the design

                      of boards
                      (rounded edges
                      and no razor edges).

• Keep away from
                      smaller beaches
                      from which board riders are banned during peak surfing times in summer months.
 

• Pay an annual surfboard registration fee of 10/- (2/- if a surf club member).

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1963 'IN NEW SOUTH WALES THIS WEEK Flurry Over Betting Report Poses Question', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 10 April, p. 2. , viewed 01 Sep 2016,
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The Chronicle
Pascagoula, Miss, August 15, 1963, page 13.

Surf Craze Studied
By DANA DRAKE
Chronicle Correspondent

Southern California’s fastest growing sport is surf riding or surfing.
All through the area one may see surfers and their tool, the surfboard.
Surfboards are fragile, especially designed boards with a length of 8 feet of more and a width of 2 feet or less.
They are constructed of glass fiber, hardshell foam, or wood and seem an absolute necessity for “normal” teenagers living along California’s southern coast.
Actually, not too many of the surfers are really normal.
At least they don’t appear to be normal.
Some wear black leather jackets with the sleeves ripped off while others are content with dirty sweatshirts.
None wear shoes and most are about six months behind on cutting their long bottle-bleached hair.
This often makes it hard to determine a surfer’s sex.
These wierd types are known affectionately as hodads, gremmies, and surf rats.
For transportation, surfers have created a terrific demand for, of all things, used hearses and ancient wood paneled station wagons in which surfboards will easily fit.
The condition of the vehicle is not really important, for as long as it will roll it is worth something.
Surfing influences many activities in Southern California, which, with over 100,000 surfers, is now the world’s largest surfing area.
Surfers have their own magazines, motion pictures, heroes, language, and music, “Secret Surfing Spot,” “The Lonely Surfer,” “Pipeline,” “The Gremmie,” and ‘Surfer Girl’ are among recordings made with surfing background.
Most surfers are fairly decent, law abiding, and considerate young people, but many are not.
For this reason many good surfing beaches are closed to surfers for all but a short period each day.
Swimmers find it much easier to stay afloat without having to dodge surfboards every few seconds.
Few surfers are strong swim mers and many cannot swim at all.
This fact keeps beach life guards very busy on days when rip tides and undertows are occuring.
Local newspapers and radios give surf conditions for the whole Southern California coast each day.
Surf riding is relatively safe, although a surfer can be knocked out and drown if he is hit by his board after being “wiped out’ or thrown while riding a wave.
Several persons have been killed in this manner and others have been injured.
Surfing is a fairly young sport in the country and still has a little growing up to do.
One can really get a thrill, though, and test his reflexes by trying out a surf board in the surf of Southern California.

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The Canberra Times
28 September 1963, page 35.

Advertising

10FT. PLYWOOD Malabu

Surf Board, £5. J1679.

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1963 'Advertising', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 28 September, p. 35. , viewed 01 Sep 2016,
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Teenagers' Weekly
The Australian Women's Weekly, 2 October 1963, page 1.

SHE RIDES THE WAVES

Pearl Turton, our 16-year-old cover girl, competed at the Interstate Surfboard Riding Championships held recently at Avalon Beach, near Sydney, and was judged the best girl surfboard rider.
Living and working as a trainee cosmetician at nearby Palm Beach, she spends most of her spare time in the water - winter and summer.
Petite and feminine, she laughed at the idea that riding the waves should be strictly for the boys.
"I'm just stoked (crazy) about board-riding," she said.
"lt's a great sport for girls, too."
So why don't YOU take up surfboard riding this summer?
On page three we tell you all about it.

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1963 'Teenagers' WEEKLY', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 2 October, p. 1. (Teenagers Weekly), viewed 20 Jan 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46449817

The Australian Women's Weekly
2 October 1963, p. 3.

Girls take to the surfboards

by KERRY YATES

Ever since Gidget surfed her way through a book and a couple of movies there has been a change in the surfing world - thousands of girls have taken up surfboard riding.

AND in Australia this season more girls than ever before will be buying boards and learning to ride the waves.

So don't be a "board widow" this summer, sitting on the beach while your boy-friend surfs all day.

 
Join him in
                        this healthy,
                        exciting sport.

As a beginner
                        you won't need a
                        new board,
                        so ask around the beach, board
                        manufacturers, or sporting stores for a "bargain"
 
second-hand board.

                        You'll needone
                        between 8ft. 6in. and 9ft.long, weighing about 261b. 

                        Its hould cost
                        under £20.
 
 

If you find you really like the sport you'll probably want a custom-built board, which costs about £35.

Board builders will advise you on the correct size,which depends on your weight and height, and you choose your own shape and color.

Girls' boards usually have thinner edges for their smaller grip, for in rough seas you really have to hang on.

Fashionable colors

One Sydney board builder told me that some girls order a surfboard as though they were choosing a hat to match their swimsuits.

Popular color
                        schemes include
                        pink-and-white stripes, lilac, pale blue, lemon, and other pastel shades, and plain boards
 
 
streaked with
                        vivid colors.

The latest
                        trend is to have the final layer of fibre glass, which covers the foam or balsa board, tinted with
                        different
                        colors.

Swimsuits are
                        the only other
                        cost involved in the sport.
It's best to wear a one-piece for the first few times, as the board
                        may rub skin
                        off your stomach before you get used to it.
 
 

After that, it's up to you.

Most girls prefer to ride in a bikini, and the experts wear special board shorts or "zip tweeds" over their costumes to prevent the board from rubbing skin from their legs.

Loose bermudas or cut-down old slacks or jeans are just as good - except for looks.

Each time you take your board into the water (or once every surfing day) you must rub the top surface with paraffin wax to prevent your slipping on the glossy surface.

 
Wax costs about 2/6 a block at a chemist shop and this should last most of the summer.

Modern surfboards have a fin underneath to make them glide more smoothly and faster through the water

Don't drag this through the sand.

Carry your board tucked under one arm or held above or resting on your head.

Never surf on your own.

Make sure that there are no dangerous rips or currents in the area and that the waves are not too big for you to handle.

Most beaches have special areas marked off for board riders, and you can be fined for moving out of the areas.

If the beach has no restricted area, keep clear of the section between the flags, which is reserved for body surfers.

Some councils, especially in Sydney, insist that all boards used at beaches in their districts must be registered each year.

The fee is 10/- and you can be fined and have your board impounded if you don't register it.

DARRYL HOLMES, a 19-year-old surfboard builder,
shows reporter Kerry Yates

how a foam board is covered with fibreglass.

Main steps

Below are the four main steps in learning to ride a board.

Just follow them, and with plenty of practice you'll be "hot-dogging" like a champion in no time.

STEP ONE: Kneel or lie (whichever you prefer) on your board so that it floats level.

Paddle out, swinging both arms together, beyond the breaking waves.

                        STEP TWO: To "crack" a wave lie flat on your board.
                      
Let the first wave go by, and when the second is about 20ft. behind start paddling until you feel the
                      swell lifting you
                        along.

                        STEP THREE: Making sure that your surfboard
                        is moving with
                        the wave, slowly rise to your feet (about three quarters of the length of the board from the front) in
                        one movement.

STEP FOUR: Bend yourknees slightly, one foot in frontof the other. Your arms maybe raised or left by your sides-wherever they are most com-fortable. Lean a little for-ward and let the board makeits own way to the shore.

Other hints

If you take a tumble (which is most likely), try to fall clear of the board and dive deep to avoid being struck by it.
The board usually bounces up and down in the broken water and is carried into the shore by the waves.

Paddling out for a wave is quite easy in a small surf.
Your board will float over the unbroken waves and an extra strong paddle will send it through the foaming ones.

If a big
                        broken wave is
                        heading your way while paddling out, just do the "turtle."
 
 
Hold tightly
                        to the sides of
                        your board and turn upside down till the wave passes.
 

If the wave is really a monster, let your board go and head for the bottom.
It's safer down there!

Don't stay on
                        your board too long for the first few times.
 
You'll
                        probably be very stiff and may even get board-rashes
                        from where it
                        rubs against your skin, but this is only temporary.
 
 

Some people take months to learn, others pick it up in a few days.
The important thing is to keep at it- and you're sure to conquer the sport.

Trove
1963 'Girls take to the surfboards', The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), 2 October, p. 3. (Teenagers Weekly), viewed 01 Sep 2016,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46449810

The Canberra Times
2 October 1963, page 12.

EX-'BOARDER'

David Brown, 14, of South Coogee, was the first victim this week, of the roller board craze which is sweeping Sydney, when he broke his arm in two places roller boarding.
Children making the roller boards place a length of board on an old roller skate and ride the board like a surf board.

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1963 'EX-'BOARDER'', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 2 October, p. 12. , viewed 01 Sep 2016,
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The Canberra Times
22 November 1963, page 40.

World's Oldest Surfie

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku (pictured) the first person to ride a surf board in Australia, arrived in Sydney yesterday to launch a new Australian book on surfboard riding.

The




                                    Duke, 73, launched the sport at
                                    Freshwater Beach almost 50 years
                                    ago.
 
He
                                    is not only the oldest "surfie"
                                    in the world, but he also owns the
                                    biggest surf board
                                    in Hawaii. 

"It's 16ft. long and it weighs 1141bs.," he said. "I've owned it since 1939, but it's been a while since I've been able to ride it."

He said he read the new book, The Australian Surfrider, on his flight to Sydney from Hawaii and was puzzled by some of the expressions in it.
"Wipe-out? - I've never heard of it," he said.
"Hanging five is another funny saying.
These strange expressions really have me puzzled."

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1963 'World's Oldest Surfie', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 22 November, p. 40. , viewed 01 Sep 2016,
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The Canberra Times
6 December 1963, page 28.

DUKE LIKES SURFERS'

Veteran surf-board rider Mr. "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, 73, of Hawaii, thinks Surfers Paradise is "wonderful, wonderful".

Mr. Kahanamoku is credited with introducing surfboard riding to Australia almost 50 years ago.

He and his wife Nadine have been touring the Gold Coast and were watching the Tungan surf carnival when this picture was taken.

"Back in 1915 I told them in Hawaii-
'if you think Waikiki's good, you ought to see those beaches in Australia,'" Mr. Kahanarnoku said.

Trove

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The Canberra Times
23 December 1963, page 28.

8 Disqualified

AUSTRALIAN SURFERS' ENTRIES REJECTED

HONOLULU,
                            Sunday (A.A.P.). -
Eight
                            Australian surfers have been disqualified
                            from the international surfing championship
                            at Makaha Beach.
 

The surfers allegedly submitted their entries after the December 14 deadline.

They are Scott Dillon, Bob Pike, Keith Southion, Mick Dooley, Ian Wallace, Barry Andreas, Terry Adams and Jack Mayes.

All had travelled from Sydney and showed up today compete in the championships.

The Australians were upset at the judge's decision.

"Our group
                            travelled 6,000 miles and spent about 20,000
                            dollars to come to Hawaii," Dillon said.
 
 

"Now they
                            tell us we can't take part because of a
                            minor technicality."
 
 

The chairman of the meeting, Wally Froiseth, said if an exception was made for Australians, the same would have to be done for others.

Waves

All three Australians who competed in preliminaries yesterday in the senior men's division, Kevin Platt, Rex Blanks, and Barry Kelly, were eliminated.

Defending champion Bernard (Midget) Farrelly, Queensland champion Dave Hines and Tasmanian champion Marry McGuigan, are automatically seeded in the semi-finals.

Waves of
                            between 20 and 30 ft., whipped up by
                            mid-ocean winds, are expected for the
                            preliminaries tomorrow.

Stowaways

In Sydney,
                            Australia's two stowaway surfboard
                            riders, Robin McTavish, 19, and David
                            Chidgey, 17, ran from reporters and
                            photographers at Kingsford Smith Airport
                            yesterday when they returned from Hawaii.

The youths pushed their, way through a large crowd outside the Customs Hall and ran to separate cars.

McTavish
                            was met by a friend who whisked him away in
                            a station wagon to avoid cameramen.
 
 

Chidgey
                            was met by his parents and a private
                            investigator, Mr. S. Robson, and he also
                            escaped being photographed and interviewed
                            by running to his parents' car.

Criticised

The youths
                            made news this week when they were arrested
                            in Honolulu and were charged with having
                            illegally entered the United States.

They
                            stowed away in the liner Orsova, arrived in
                            Hawaii on December 1 and avoided detection
                            until this week.

The F.B.I,
                            yesterday decided that charges against the
                            youths would be dropped if they returned to
                            Australia.

The deputy
                            chairman of P.and O. Orient in Australia,
                            Mr. J. D. Bates, criticised the youths'
                            action yesterday.

"They have
                            caused this company and the United States
                            authorities much trouble and expense," Mr.
                            Bates said.

"A fine of
                            20,000 dollars was imposed on the Orsova,
                            and the company was forced to repatriate
                            them by air at a cost of over £400," he
                            said.

The company is seeking legal advice on the possibility of taking legal action against the youths.

Trove
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