SURFERS SLUNG.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5373, 11 January 1929, Page 3

SURFERS SLUNG.

• — BLUE BOTTLE A RMY. 100 BONDI CASUALTIES. Bluebottles again gave suffers an anxious time at Bondi Eejach. one day recently. Messrs, J, ;s. Primrose and L. Kelly of. the Eastern Suburbsi Ambulance, estimated jthat they treated about 100 cases .during the day. Several patients wm' in a bad way, and had to be treated' with hot packs, and conveyed heme. At bondi, every wave seenied ,to bring in its complement of. pests, and. the long, blue, deadly streamers attached themselves, to the .necks, bodiejs, and limbs of bathers. A nunw ber of those stung treaty the mat-;, ter lightly at first, but later lay down on the beach, or were c.arriedl from the water in agony. They were taken by ’lifesavers and. fri<ends to the club house,, where thejr were treated. Bluebottles were als.o in evidence at Bronte, where there -werq between 30 and 40 casps during, the day'. Owing to the formation of a channel close to the beach at Bondi, numerous surfejrs were tr apped, but were rescued promptly by voluntary patrols;. Two men were badly cut on thq rocks at Bondi, and were trteated, One received a lacerated; wound on the top of the head, and the other a ntaety gash near the right eye.