SUMNER BEACH
Sjf,—lt is well known by dredeemasters that a small obstruction in a will alter soundings consid.k° rty y ears ago a wreck ed the entrance to Kaipara to a “i 116 sou th. the buoys being I h .E d . f J°, m t™e to time. On the New South Wales coast as a boy I flshed off rocks into 12ft of water. Now these rocks are covered in sand, which has advanced a quarter of a mile inland because of another wreck. Another wreck scoured out a bearfh to form a rocky bay as big as Caroline K it used b y small launches. The Waimakariri puts out say, 1,000,000 tons of shingle per annum, so it is not to be wondered at that alterations occur in the coast-line. —Yours, etc., T 44 14 « HYDRO. Lyttelton, September 19, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27151, 22 September 1953, Page 3
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