BROKE ITS BACK
BEACH PONTOON HAS AN ACCIDENT
TROUBLE AT CHELTENHAM One of the best known of sea beach fixtures about Auckland, the concrete pontoon at Cheltenham Beach, has come to an untimely end, having "broken its back.” Frequenters of the beach have wondered why the familiar pontoon was not visible at high water. Several attempts to cement up the fracture, extending across the bottom of the structure, have proved in vain the punt filling to submerging point after three to four hours as the motion of the water opened up the fracture. At half-tide the diving-boards wer~ usable and children have been able to use the punt, but as it Is a danger to navigation when submerged, it is to be hauled out under North Head and abandoned. This decision was reached by the North Shore Swimming Club last evening.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 891, 7 February 1930, Page 11
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141BROKE ITS BACK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 891, 7 February 1930, Page 11
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