HIGH TIDE AT OCEAN BEACH

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8589, 10 June 1891, Page 5

HIGH TIDE AT OCEAN BEACH

BREACH IN THE SEA WALL. * [BY TEtHOKAPIf. rRKSS ASSOCIATION.] , . ;>; ■■■-'.>:? : Di?nedin, Tuesday. Considerable alarm was caused on the flat yesterday ,by an : extraordinary, high 'tide and sea. on the Ocean Beach, and in the afternoon it became evident that a; breach would ;be made in the sand hills, at St, Kilda, Road, close to the Central Battery, At half-past four the sea had out a channel through, and there was a strong stream flowing up the St, Kilda Road for about 800 yards which spread on to the low lying ground.v This being the first experience of the kind many of the , inhabitants prepared to leavo their houses. As the channel was cut through within a short time of high water - nothing serious happened. S{eps were at once taken to dam the back water for the next tide by filling up the channel, and placing bags full of sand as a protector. At St. Clair the remaining portion of the sea wall has disappeared, and most of the Esplanade has been washed away. The next high tide : will probably see several sections of the land swallowed up, as there is j nothing but a : line of sand hills, ' now rapidly being eaten away,' between? the ocean and St. Kilda,V South Dunedin, and part of . Caversham. Residents and property owners are very , considerably alarmed. - , *. , The tides to-day caused but little damage at Ocean Beach. At St. Clair the whole of the broad esplanade right up to the buildings line has been washed away.