MILFORD LIFE GUARDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 247, 9 January 1928, Page 14

MILFORD LIFE GUARDS

BEACH ENTERTAINERS AN EFFICIENT ORGANISATION 9J 16 . °S, th ® distinctive features of Milford Beach is the Life Saving Club, H* e ui nl J e * cie ntly organised club of its kind about the city. Mr T R_ Bailey controls the club, which is iiart of the Milford Progressive Association. The regular drills of the squads, the membershrp includes about 24 adulte of both sexes and a number of juniors al ~s ys a ttract a big audience. The alarm, the simulated “casualty " the dash Of the belted “lead” into the tht.T’ i the payins out of the line by the reel man; the rescue and the applirestorative measures to the rescued person, are very instructive. A P ai l\. Irom the serious side of the K, Club members also provide considerable entertainment for beach p TWe by tk l eir "daily dozen antics.” ~„T hef ® consist of distorted gymnash rt„t' h ™ an centipede, a hum“ items v-a rlous imprompt , ; The club’s record day was in 1916 l'" b ® n ' a^ ter flve persons were rescued from a heavy surf at Milford, the wet tired men travelled to give a demon-’ stration at Devonport. The collection boxes were passed around, but when n?fio,f <1 t Were found to contain the magnificent sum of 7»d! 6