Sumner Foreshore
Sir,—Sumner esplanade residents are unanamous that the 3ft 6in wall is not warranted. A wall with gaps at intervals will not give protection, and in a few years, if the beach continues to build up at its present rate, the need for protection will not exist. It will seriously interfere with the asset for which these home owners bought and paid higher prices. City motorists have everything to lose by its erection, and city ratepayers are to help pay for it. Would they want to come to Sumner in their hundreds, as at present, winter and summer, to spend the afternoon looking at a sft embankment topped by a 3ft 6in wall? The esplanade could be beautified without it by sealing and with crazy paving bays and seats at intervals. There has been no “haggling” in Sumner that I am aware of.—Yours, etc., D. E. SMITH. March 20, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 3
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