RESTORING A BEACH
NEW DREDGE AT DURBAN [from our own correspondent] DURBAN, March 1 Durban is trying a bold and expensive experiment in an effort to recover its once 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 100 yards or more from the sea. A dredger of a new type has been constructed, and this picks up saud in the Durban Bay and then pumps -it through a long pipe-line to the beach. Two loads of 3000 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 11
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124RESTORING A BEACH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 11
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