devonportflagstaff.co.nz
November 1, 2024
Council building sold after big valuation drop... p2
Signs of business revival as summer beckons... p18
Interview: Wooden-boat fan Alan Houghton... p22
Community benefits from TGS swimming pool upgrade Devonport Swim Club has been thrown a lifeline with the $2 million upgrade of the Takapuna Grammar School (TGS) pool. The swim club had been based at the Navy swimming pool for decades, but has been shut out since the Covid pandemic. With the upgrade to the TGS pool, the club
has committed to a three-year licence to run swim squads at the school. Construction has started on the upgrade, with a reopening planned in term one, 2025, meaning serious squad swimmers will no longer have to travel off the Devonport peninsula for pool training.
The upgraded pool will be heated yearround, floodlit and deepened by 70cm to allow water polo. It will be used for physical education, swimming coaching and swim squads as well as for cross-training for other sports. To page 11
Fundraisers in the pink
Court action... Tennis players from three different clubs gathered at Ngataringa Tennis Club in Stanley Bay to raise money for breast-cancer awareness. Story, more pictures, pages 34 and 35.