LEVELS OLD AND NEW
LAMBTON QUAY BEACH
Excavations for a new building on the opposite side of Lambton Quay from the State Fire Office have uncovered sand and shell, obviously on the level of the old beach which formed.the waterfront in Wellington's earliest days. The deposit is less than three feet below the Lambton Quay bitumen. This is obviously much higher than the sea would rise today if this were still the waterfront. The difference in new and old harbour levels is no doubt due to the earthquake, which raised the harbour coastline some five feet many years ago. Looking across the street from the excavations is seen the State Fire Office, the first of a phalanx of imposing buildings erected on the reclamation extending to the present waterfront, showing what the city owes to reclamation works.
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Evening Post, Issue 98, 27 April 1936, Page 10
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137LEVELS OLD AND NEW Evening Post, Issue 98, 27 April 1936, Page 10
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