"New Plymouth Swimming and Old Boys Surf Club"
Production date
1934
Description
Group portrait of eight members of the New Plymouth Swimming and Old Boys Surf Club Senior Team, winners of the Nelson Shield for the New Zealand Surf Life-saving Six Man R&R (Rescue & Resuscitation) Championship, Weston Cup, and Ohawe Shield in 1934. The team is in a studio setting with curtains and part of a painted backdrop visible behind them. There is a triangular flag decorated with a winged lifebuoy behind the group in the centre, a cup, a framed shield, and an Old Boys Surf Club reel in the centre front. The team members are all wearing swimming outfits.
Standing in the back row from left is Ralph Hugh Gayton (1913-1974), M.W. Rimmington, H.S.T. Weston (Captain), C. Allen and R.A.H. Perkins. Seated in the front from on the left is Noel F. Gardiner and on the right is H.S. Watkins. The eighth portrait, showing H.J. Anthony, has been inset into the centre along the top edge of the photograph. The photograph is mounted on brown card.
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