CANOEIST AT BENMORE
Trip Through Culvert
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 11. A lone canoeist recently negotiated the 1600 ft-long diversion culvert at Benmore for the first time.
Watched by a small crowd. Mr J. Delaney, a 28-year-old crane operator, recently took his 12ft canoe into the culvert, starting in still water at the toe of the main eofferdam, and paddling out into the main current to let the river take his craft.
“I did not have a great deal to do once inside the culvert, apart from the occasional flick of the paddle to keep the canoe straight,” said Mr Delaney afterwards. “In some ways it is like riding an easy ocean swell.
“There did not seem to be much noise, at least none of the roaring that might have been expected.”
Told later of Mr Delaney’s feat. Mr J. W. Ridley, the project engineer, said that in the interests of safety there would be no more culvert canoeing at Benmore. “The feat has been accomplished and there is no point in repetition,” he said. “To preserve the good safety record of this project, further attempts are forbidden.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29511, 12 May 1961, Page 19
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