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AS SHORT HISTORY OF THE CLUB
The 1950s were a the club
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resuscitation techniques, and equipment and guidelines for local government regarding bathing by-laws. It also provided reels and paid patrols during summer. After a tragic surfing fatality at Maroochydore on October 8, 1922, there were moves to step up beach safety at Maroochydore, Coolum and Mooloolaba. At a meeting of the Maroochy Shire Council held that year, Councillor J Lindsay moved that five guineas be given “for financial assistance towards the cost of patrolling the beach” at Mooloolaba that Christmas. Members of the Mooloolaba River Sports Club, encouraged by the local Progress Association, moved to provide the patrols. In 1922 it was decided to hold the annual aquatic sports day at Mooloolaba that Christmas, with proceeds going towards building boats for sculling and skiff racing. The following year, the sports
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club became the Mooloolaba Sports and Life Saving Club. The first building used by the newly named club had been a derelict old sugar shed listed for demolition by the Progress Association. A new shed was constructed on the beach and officially opened on October 14, 1923, located about 80 metres south of the present club. The life saving club quickly became one of Mooloolaba’s main attractions and was described by the Chairman of the Royal Life Saving Society as “the most go-ahead club in Queensland”. By March 1930 there were 70 club members, 11 of them women. In 1936, talk began of building a new club house, and 12 months later the council approached the State Government for a subsidised loan of 400 pounds. Along with community fundraising, enough money was collected to build a new two-storey building, officially opened on March 26, 1939. It even had electric power!
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he history of Mooloolaba Surf Life Saving Club can S be traced back to Ch C Christmas hri rist stt 1919, when the Mo Mooloolah ool ol River Sports Club wass fformed under the wa pres pr presidency esii es of Buderim farmer W Wi William ill llli lli Fawcett Bell, known to a to all as ‘Uncle’. M Many members were retu re returned tu tu servicemen, eager for am more active community life afte af after te years at the front. The te ssports sp o club organised various ccompetitions, co o including an aaquatic carnival, and was aq p pr predominantly comprised of Buderim residents. of The formation of the M Mooloolah Progress A Association in January 1920 became the impetus for the transformation of the sports club into a local surf life saving club. The R Th The Royal Life Saving Society provided advice regarding rescue and
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