Story: Lifesaving and surfing

More links and websites

• Piha New
  Zealand
  

  Piha is New Zealand’s most famous surf beach,
  where board riding began in 1956.

• Surf Life
  Saving New Zealand
  

  The map on this site links to surf lifesaving
  regions around the country. There is information on
  lifesaving, education and history.

• Surfing
  NZ
  

  The governing body of surfing in New Zealand
  aims to promote and advance the sport as a safe and
  healthy activity.

More suggestions and sources

• Booth, Douglas. ‘Healthy, economic, disciplined
  bodies: surfbathing and surf lifesaving in
  Australia and New Zealand, 1890–1950.’ New
  Zealand Journal of History 32, no. 1 (April
  1998): 43–58.
• Coney, Sandra. Piha: a history in
  images. Auckland: Keyhole, 1997.
• Daley, Caroline. Leisure & pleasure:
  reshaping and revealing the New Zealand body,
  1900–1960. Auckland: Auckland University
  Press, 2003.
• Harvey, Bob. Rolling thunder: the spirit of
  Karekare. Auckland: Exisle, 2001.
• Ingram, N. A. A factual history of surf
  life-saving in New Zealand, 1910–1952. Lower
  Hutt: Hutt Printing and Publishing, 1953.
• Jackson, Ivan. Sand between my toes: the
  story of surf lifesaving in New Zealand.
  Auckland: Penguin, 2006.
• Williamson, Luke. Gone surfing: the golden
  years of surfing in New Zealand, 1950–1970.
  Auckland: Penguin, 2000.