New Plymouth Harbor.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5204, 26 April 1888, Page 3

New Plymouth Harbor.

THE ACCUMULATION OF SAND

MR BLACKETT'S itErORT.

BIG REMEDIAL SCHEME.

JPEE TEESS ASSOCIATION.;

■Wkllinoton, This day. Nx- -RWVoH Er;gineer-in-Chief,.lias p re . J£k to to ih. Minister of Marine onKaTleged accumulation of sand near « P tK* means of removing: it ""d preven ing it acain accumulating, with an LS, of the cost. In doingth»./*'£ fully describing the [present -"ork.s, be Svf—" The accumulation of » fallowed the water to such an extent tli.it Se MikotaW, formerly an island at faign 4ater, is now connected by a rand bar Stoblv above the level of high water, and the sand has f u ,md it- way round the end of the breakwater, forming « n.irro« Ipit across the entrance to the harbor, ex- £ B a di>tance of 450 feet, and barring to a certain extent the direct approach ot vessels to the wbarf erected inside the toakwater. There h also a further deposit and from 100 to 70 feet in width. Mr Blackett does not agree with tho opinion Spressed by residents that this accumulatTon of «and y is from debris thrown into sea St contends that the supply of sand comes from a long stretch of sandy beach lying £ tt ?h-west of thoi'aritatu and Other inlands Tlw approximate estimate of the ««A of 2rieS works arc as follows of •sha 4t£rT. -as £s £dSaix.S «*a and line, £56,000 ; construction of heavy rubble stone groin from the Lion rock to the island of Moturoa, £10,000: waggon, stock cranw, etc., £4000; contingencies (eav), ft- t'*». l77^t° f Andstw in the ha,!* of the JreS over several years. Tho work«hould be well watched as it proceeded. A further work would be needed in the removal of the JecuS the necessary amount required per jean .