Early History...M'dore SLSC

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  • Background to site development
  • Early history of the lifesaving movement
  • Jan 1 1916...a beginning at Maroochydore and on the North Coast
  • Development of Cotton Tree
  • First season Jan 1916 to Easter 1916
  • The locals assume control
  • A split occurs
  • Barry Cup and RLSSQ Brisbane competition
  • FO Venning
  • JJ Betts
  • RLSSQ...life saving club
  • The effects of the First World War raging overseas
  • Dunethin Lake Aquatic Carnivals
  • QASA...swimming club
  • Second Season Oct 1916 to Easter 1917
  • Womens' involvement
  • Third Season Oct 1917 to Easter 1918
  • Fourth Season Oct 1918 to Easter 1919
  • 1919...after the War ends
  • 1919 Oscar and Bob Anderson, with Frank Lambourne do patrols
  • 1920...NSW Surf Bathing model adopted in Qld
  • 1921 Joe Suosaari
  • 1921-22 The local families and this community service
  • The Suosaari family
  • Venning Family Ithaca Pool and the RLSSQ pool base
  • Tom Prentis
  • Vic Suosaari
  • 1922...buildings begin
  • 1922...lifesavers become Ambos too...and ladies definitely were members
  • Lily Anderson
  • Peter Petersen's Family
  • 1924 Qld Governor opens new Ambulance and Life Savers' Building at Maroochydore
  • 1924 and beach competition begins
  • 1926...Valley Pool opens and our first Champion is a superstar of the QASA
  • 1926...North Coast 'Branch' goes alone...
  • Allan Petersen
  • 1928...State Championships on the beaches
  • Axel Suosaari
  • 1930-31...Premier QASA Swimming Club
  • 1931...amalgamation...and formation of State Centre in Qld
  • Jack Petersen
  • Gallery
  • The 1930's


 In his speech, the Governor referred to the new building as "...a new building for the Ambulance Brigade Centre and for the Life Saving Club at this place."

Replaced in 1956, with only an addition of a boat shed built by Arthur Scott after the Second World War, the concluding paragraph of the extensive Chronicle article is worth re-quoting in full:

"The building erected by the Maroochydore Ambulance and Life Saving Society, with the Chamber of Commerce, is a spacious two-storied hardwood building, 36ft. x 12ft. and 19ft. high. On the ground floor there are four rooms--ambulance, bathroom, reel room and large mess room--and on the top storey, reached by a stairway, there is a lookout and a spacious room at either end. The building had been gaily decorated with flags and palms, and inside the building was a display of some of the districts primary products.

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