RIVERBANK AREA
Improvement For Rowing Avon Rowing Club representatives had agreed to build a slipway for their training “barge” at Kerrs reach provided the City Council was able to ramp the part of the riverbank from the culvert bridge to the existing ramped part of the river in front of the club’s building, the parks and recreation committee reported to the council last evening. The work could be put in hand by the city engineer’s department, the committee said. The club had said that use of the “barge” had been curtailed because of the difficulty of launching it. Keeping it moored in the river had presented problems. The club also asked that the whole bank from the Avon boat-house south be lowered and graded in keeping with recent developments along Avonside drive. It said this would facilitate launching and also reduce the hazard for young children.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 18
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146RIVERBANK AREA Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31115, 19 July 1966, Page 18
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