ST. CLAIR BEACH.
TO THE EDITOR Sir, —Your correspondent "R. Walker" is much to be commended for having put so clearly the futility of going on with further groynes, and it is to bo hoped that the City Council, who have been asked to foot the principal pari of the cost, will yet decide that they can do better with the ratepayers' money than experiments of this nature. Mr Walker condemns the Esplanade -wall. It is possible that it would have been better if it had, as he say 3, been stopped or curved on the seaward side, but it might not have been as permanent. I would ask those who consider the wall is to blame to walk round to the Second Beach, where they will find that all the sand that used to be there has disappeared, and that the stones never before have shown up to the extent they are doing, and there is no wall there, I agree with Mr Walker that Nature and Nature alone can now bring back the sand.—l am, etc., Coimox Sense. March 4.
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Evening Star, Issue 17293, 5 March 1920, Page 2
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182ST. CLAIR BEACH. Evening Star, Issue 17293, 5 March 1920, Page 2
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