THE WOODHILL SANDDRIFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 20 October 1922, Page 7

THE WOODHILL SANDDRIFT.

' RKMKDIAI. MKASfKKS PROPOSED. The steady pncroaohmoni of the sand at Woiidhill ha* caused the Waitemata County c.uncil t.> ileciile 1 :isi ,;ule n sand "drift nrea, providvd the Minister will delegate to that body all hi.- powers under that Act. A report of the committee set up to gn into the question was submitted at the meeting of the ' Waitcmata < outity loiim-il to-day. This ' suggested that before the sand drift urea is proclaimed, the -elii-me should be submitted for consideration of the I opponents of the proposal. The scheme Kiigi;i'st> thr area should be limited to tin- enclosure within a substantial fence of the heads of all gullies within the area fr.mi whirh sand now 2ets into the Kaiparn Kher. nr wns iikely to jret there. It i~ nlso proposed ; that an earth ciiihaukmvut be constructed acroo- the gullice within the j two enclosures. The linai c'mui-e t.i I [»• j report is. "Your committee f\l- in duty bound to impress upon the council the necessity of taking effective inea-ures . with the least possible delay to prevent the flow of sand into (in- Kuipara Jiiver."'