BATHING ACCIDENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8344, 3 February 1913, Page 7

BATHING ACCIDENTS

On Sunday morning at Thorndon baths, a bather named P. Bay fainted as ho was approaching tho stops, coming out of the water. Help was forthcoming, and ho was brought round after some twenty minutes' effort. In tho afternoon at Lyall Bay, in tho presence of close on IpOO people, a bather (name unknown) was rescued in a drowning condition a few yards from the shore. It appears that ho had beon “shooting” tho breakers for some time, and had swallowed a largo quantity of water. This, after a while, had its effect, and tho first intimation of anything being wrong was when the incoming tide washed him almost on to dry land, apparently lifeless. Members of tho Maranui Surf Club commenced resuscitation exercises, and he speedily recovered. On Saturday afternoon, at Lyall Bay akso, a bather. named Fildes, a clerk residing in tho city, had the whole of his wearing apparel, including a watch and chain, handbag, etc., destroyed by fire. Ho undressed on the sand hills, and it is thought that a match tnrown aside by a smoker was the cause of tho outbreak. Besides tho loss ho sustained, ho suffered the distress of remaining in a wet costume for a. considerable time until a new outfit was procured from town.