AUCKLAND PLEASURE BOATS DAMAGED BY FLOATING OIL
AUCKLAND, Last Night (PALLarge patches of thick, blackish oil floating in the harbour ruined the paintwork of at least seven pleasure craft at Devonport over the week-end. All the vessels were anchored off the Devonport Yacht Club’s boathouse. The yachtsmen are perturbed and Indignant about the menace of floating oil to their boats as they say it has happened frequently in the past and is likely to occur again unless some drastic action is taken to prevent people from discharging oil into the harbour.
“It is just carelessness,’’ said one ot the owners (Mr. R. D. Knight). He said he put his vessel down for the first time this season on Saturday afternoon. Oil left the white paintwork a dirty, greenish colour and the vessel will have to be put up on the hard again. Mr. Knight said that because the oil eats into the paint, apart from discolouring it, the paint had to be removed and the job done again. "I doubt if I’ll get out of it under £15,” he said. His freshly-painted and varnished dinghy was also thickly coated with the oil.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 October 1950, Page 4
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