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1) Surf and life-saving club ensures safe record of beach resort near Levin.

The Levin Junior Chamber of Commerce adopted as its main project for 1949 the establishing of a surf patrol at Waiterere Beach. This popular beach, well known as perhaps one of the safest bathing resorts on this coast, had unfortunately experienced drowning fatalities over the years and it was considered that a surf life-saving club was essential to teach the approved methods of live-saving and resuscitation.

2) Early days rugby was a "come as you please" business.

Among this district's earliest rugby players was Mr. Jack Smith, of Cambridge Street, who is now in his eighties, and still a keen follower of the sport, though, understandably a somewhat critical one when he compares rugby as played in the earliest days and rugby today. He was one of the first to join the Levin Football Club and thinks he must be about the last of these earliest players of the sport in this district.

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