ST. CLAIR BEACH.

Evening Star, Issue 17621, 29 March 1921, Page 5

ST. CLAIR BEACH.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—The groynes on the St. Clair beach having been condemned as utterly useless, and moreover as being most unsightly, please allow me space to add another to tho multifarious suggestions already made. That all groyne piles, old as we!l*as new. be taken out and redriven Bft deep and 3ft apart in a line immediately in trout of the wall of stones now being erected. Tho piles should bo boarded up to about Bft high on tho seaward side, leaving Sin between tho boards. Then plaoo the stones at tho back of the structure—that is, between tho structure and the sandhills. Some residents of Dunedin may perhaps' no able to call to mind a wall of similar construction on tho seaward side of Port Ahuriri. Napier. This wall has withstood a good pounding by heavy seas for many years, and I venture to predict that a wait of this description would last and stand the pressure of tho sea on the St. Clair beach, and preserve the sandhills from any further damage, at least until the time when the proposed mole is built out, when St. Clair troubles will, be at an end by tho natural forming of a rival to Timaru’s beauty spot, Caroline Bay.—l am, etc., Bulwark. March 28.