RESTORING A BEACH
HEW DREDGE AT DURBAN DURBAN, April 10. Durban is trying a bold and expensive experiment in an effort to recover its ones vast stretch of sandy beach. In recent years the beach has disappeared, and to-day huge rollers from the Indian Ocean crash against the promenade which once stood 100yds or more from the see. A dredger of a new type has been constructed, and this picks up sand in the Durban Bay and then pumps it through a long pipe line to the beach. Two lords- of 3,500 tons each are delivered every day, and the results have been so successful that it is expected the beach will have been completely restored in 200 .pumping days.
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Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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120RESTORING A BEACH Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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