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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1931. Volume 2. Number 2.

Extract From The "Dominion," Nov., 1961

Extract From The "Dominion," Nov., 1961.

Chas. S. Plank, at the Tennis Association dinner held last evening at the Cricketers' Arms in his honour, touched briefly upon the proposed Cook Strait Tunnel. The scheme, he stated, presented for him no difficulties at all. The plans will be completed the day after to-morrow and the tunnel shortly before the Christmas rush sets in.

Mr Plank, in reply to the Chairman, Mr. Macduff. Member for Mount Street, stated that his first great engineering feat had been accomplished when he was but a student at Victoria College. He remembered the occasion well. He had been watching the tennis courts one summer evening, when he noticed suddenly that there was not sufficient space between the back line and the fence. Realising that V.U.C. tennis was not such that it could hold its own against hazards such as tins, he determined to rectify this great handicap.

There were two alternatives: Either a piece of the bank at the south end could be cut away and the courts moved southwards, or else (1) the fence could be taken down, (2) an upright concrete wall constructed, (3) the bank extended out over the roadway below, and (4) the courts moved north-wards.

Mr. Plank smilingly admitted that, as usual, be had chosen the more difficult course of action, and although much of the students' money had necessarily been sacrificed, he was proud to say the great work had been put through.

Mr. Macduff, rising to propose the toast mentioned his own and Mr. Plank's proverbial modesty.

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