The pair are pictured strolling through the historic wave-washed wooden poles, which began life as a system of groynes built and fitted with horizontal wooden boards to manage sand flow along St Clair Beach, in 1902.
It is not clear what year the surviving poles were installed.
While the twilight of their career saw them as the feature of many St Clair photographs, their time in the limelight is coming to an end.
The Otago Daily Times reported 22 poles remained in August 2015, down from 35 in January of that year, following a large storm.
That number appeared to have dwindled to nine this week.
The Dunedin City Council has previously said the poles were council property, but had served their time, and were not being protected.PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH
