"THAT WALL!"

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 6

"THAT WALL!"

. : fc ■ ORIENTAL BAY RESIDENTS PROTEST. THE CHILDREN MUST BE CONSIDERED. A .number of excited residents of Oriental Bay invaded the Tdjvii Hall yesterday looking for "the : Mayor or someone .on whom '..thoy could give vent to their displeasure. .Led on valorously by Councillor W. H. Hales, the veteran engineer and City Councillor, tjhey: bore'down-upon the City Engineer \(Mr.,W. H. Morton),- and opened fire at an . easy range. The exciting element was tie; wall — tho wall that; the-- Bay -'people.: hare; been battling for orcrra period of years; It haa como.at last;' the work has commenced, and each morning is oritically . examined liy overy . interested resident of' Oriental:' Bay. Suddenly it was discovered that the wall,that has> been designed is''riot; the wall'the'residents want, and, making sure that the do--;sign was,,to' their ideas, unsuitable, the word went round, v and' tho descent on an ; overworked Ciiy Engineer resulted, : It appears .that Mr. Morton's plans 1 pro*, vide for a perpendicular concrete wall (which will show a' foot above water:at'.high tide), acting as the tow of a .sloping .dry; pitchod wall- to : terminat6'"<iri ';a level witli' the':foo'fcpath to be formed on; the seaward 1 side of the' Oriental Bay.-road,-.. It. is this ooncreta wall that is the cause of the trouble. T'llo deputatioiiists maintained.-that a wall'.which shows a: foot above the water" at high tide will show five feet at low.!water—a'sheer drop that height. What tho Bay people require ii that the sloping wall.:shonla continue right down to'the beach, so that the children! will bo able to run down the slope on to the beach without, much ,trouble or danger, which could not be done'w.ere the slope to terminate in a fivo foot concrete'drop.' ' v ■ ' Tile members, pointed out how the Council would bo spoiling the work by such a mode of construction as thatlproposad,- and. bccan:« • very warm ill urging' tho full foobpath-to. beach slope. ' • ■ .' - ■ ■

/ It. is understood'that as the outoomo d -, tile deputation the present plans will be modified to fall in. with. tho idoag of. the Residents