Harbour Race For Rafts
(N.Z. Press Association) • AUCKLAND, May 8. A fantastic flotilla crossed the Waitemata harbour today. Buoyed by oil drums and high hopes, eight rafts manned mainly by architectural students at Auckland University, raced from Devonport to the Admiralty Steps.
Sabotage and piracy figured in running battles over the mile-and-a-half course. But the rafts, sent off by a crowd of about 500 at Devonport, made the distance. A cheering audience along ,the wharves welcomed the first raft with its crew of architectural students, Norman Gray, Auckland, Russell King and David Chapple of Christohurch, and John Salmond, Dunedin. They favoured sculls instead of paddles and came in ahead of such notable efforts as a floating bedstead (much the worse for war) and a paddle raft driven with cranks and cycle sprockets.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30127, 10 May 1963, Page 10
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