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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17428, 12 April 1922, Page 11

. Steady progress is.: being made attipit the eand dune redaction w6jrk under-: taken &■ little 'to the' south''' of thq Kangitikei riverr month* by the State Forest Service; The first; problem was* to check the tremendous sand drift that flows inland from the coast through the valleys between the frontal dunes, and this isibeing tackled by that construction of' rough; barricades formed of, driftwood. Vertical, stakes are logs and branches are interlaced to make a strong barrier.' .As the drifting Band piles against the obstruction and threatens to overlap it, the barricade will be built still higher, until a long unbroken*dune stretches along the foreshore. Behind this front line of defence marram grass will be ed to hold the loose sand. As soon, a* some form of stability is reached, experimental tree-planting will be undertaken with the ultimate view of foresting the great area of waste land which at prissent stretches far inland,; and ig a constant menace to the ndjoining farm lands. , * ■■•■-.;