ST. CLAIR SEA FRONT

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 14

ST. CLAIR SEA FRONT

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Some folk apparently think thai. Mr F. I \V. [-'inkcri- report "means that, in hi:; ' opinion no wail should be built- at Si. (Hair i iiniil measures arc taken for preventing the ' rnrthpr ero.-ion of th.-. beach. Such an idea. i.- wrong. Mr Furkert, questioned on the. Mlhaei, -,iv-: i

" My inquiries had noiliiii.tr to do with a wall er with any social scheme for Itcaitl-ity-ing, ami niv report oiily deal' with the rllieaec or otherwise of the structure erected

in ihe pa-a. In t-hat connection t satisfied inyr-clf that ihe «roins have been useful, and I cm sen no hotter way of using the billow end wind action. What 1 drew attention to wa.s tic inexpediency of erecting a wall on ih" line of Smith's wall, which was about l-Ufi out from the present edge of the marram, and constituted ihe outer defence of l lie original esplanade. My rcoommendatioiK are not hostile to a proposition t-o put up a w:il! above hiirh-watcr mark, a- wall -itch as 1 understand is lavornl by the local Association."

In jus-titicatinn o: lus advice itbotir- srnv.iH Mr Furker: pointed to a plan of the coast, and willed attention to the ta.ct that, all the coiners opening to ihe south-east axe more or bandies?, whiisi tiie opposite sides o:' the channels or bights iiuik.t> up with sand. 11. is so at Lawyer Head, at, AVii'kliffe lia.v, at Otau'o He:i(ls. at Piirakantii. and so on--the deep channel, where there is one, is on the west side. The perpetual set, of the current- ami ihe prevail lit S.VV. wind heap up the sand on ihe ca.vfeni Side. Ii is to deflect these forces and help to make an oddy into which sand may drift, that is one of the principal uses of the groins.

But Mr Furkert has nothing to say against, a '.vail that would be above mark.