Slip severely damages Mangawhai Surf Club building after heavy rain – NZ Herald

WEBSITE OF THE YEARAPP OF THE YEAR2 Feb, 2023 01:07 AM3 mins to readThe Mangawhai Surf Club building was cordoned off after a slip. Photo / SuppliedThe Mangawhai Heads Surf Club building was heavily damaged after heavy rain caused a massive slip on the hillside behind the clubhouse.The club’s public relations officer Tony Baker said hundreds of tonnes of rocks came down the hill around midday on Wednesday.“It completely took out the female toilets, half the men’s toilets and the internal staircase…The photos actually don’t do it justice, they don’t really show the scale of it.”Professional lifeguards were on duty and inside the building at the time, Baker said, but no one was seriously injured. The clubhouse was quickly evacuated.“We had a couple of our senior members on the property at the time – they just made a very quick decision, let’s just get the main rescue assets out.”The building and its grounds have been cordoned off and were unable to be accessed, with the potential for more debris to fall.The future of the building is unclear, Baker said, although it had not been written off yet.“A lot of people have grown up around the place, from nippers right through
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