Thong floating about the top chamber in the Victory in the Pacific Fountain at the Railway Oval , Townsville , on May 24 , at the very start of the city's Civic Pride Trail . Also visible was a crunched up drink can on the bottom . Gone was the hubcap that had been thrown in there previously . However , nearby , on a walkway , was a broken up hubcap .
The bottom chamber of the leaking fountain contained a mass of leaves and paper serviettes sucked into the filter , sticks , takeaway food items , one split coffee container there in excess of a month , sachets on the ground .
The Railway Oval , at the intersection of Blackwood and Flinders Streets, with its fountain , was reopened August 11, l995 to mark the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific , in a joint ceremony by Queensland Rail and the Townsville City Council, the mayor at the time Tony Mooney . It's rundown state and lack of daily checking and maintenance of all major war memorials is a blot on the garrison city . Also missing in action has been the local media which, somehow, continually fail to notice this situation .
