CAME OUT BLACK
BATHERS OBJECT TO FOUL OIL LYING ON WATER NUISANCE AT TAKAPUNA j Auckland, Friday. j Bathing at Takapuna and St. Leonard's beaches lost all its attractions when the first people in the tide this morning came out smeared with j black fuel oil. j Mothers of large f amilies did a lot j of brisk work with benzine and oldrags cleaning their unhappy children, and some of the adults caught a later boat than usual after trying to make j themselves presentable for the- city. : The presence of the oil was reported to the Auckland harbourmaster, Captain H. H. Sergeant, who dis- i patched some of his staff in boats to-i try and pick it up. They found large patches floating outside the surf, and the beach fouled in some places by what had drifted ashore. Old sack-: ing was used to pick up as much as' possible of the floating scum. -* Captain Sergeant said to-day that he had so far been unable to aseertain what ship had pumped out the1 oil,. but he. thought that it had been done outside harhour limits. The oil, had afterwards drifted inshore with? the northerly wind and food tide. 1
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 419, 31 December 1932, Page 5
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