New Brighton playground
A children’s playground, with shelters and seating, paddling pool, filtration plant (in lighthouse), and a whale, is to be built at New Brighton just south of the car park on Marine Parade. The playground, designed by a registered architect, Mt G. K Austin, is estimated to cost $16,850. The City Council last evening agreed that this sum should be provided from the sale-of-land account. The New Brighton Pier and Foreshore Society in October, 1969, offered to meet the architect’s fees up to a limit of $l5OO.
The architect’s plan called for a pirate ship ($3000) and for raised and sunken playing areas, but the council finance committee recommended that the ship be deleted and the area be treated as one level, thus saving $5OOO on the estimate of $21,850. The shelter and seating is estimated to cost $3700, paddling pool $3150, filtration plant $2300, road carpet (including drainage and formation work) $7500, whale $l2OO and lighting $5OO.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32562, 23 March 1971, Page 14
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160New Brighton playground Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32562, 23 March 1971, Page 14
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