DRIFTING SAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 8

DRIFTING SAND

LYALL BAY NUISANCE. CITY COUNCIL’S ACTION. A memorandum from tho city engineer (Mr W. H. Morton) in regard to tho sand nuisance at Lyall Bay, accompanied by a plan showing. tho areas on which it as most serious, was placed before the City Council last night. Ho had found upon inspection, said Mr Morton, that at one print tho sand accumulated during southerly weather and was blown off tho beach. With a view to overcoming tho difficulty ho was erecting a brushwood fence, similar to one erected at Island Buy, to prevent drifting. Tho san on sections eastward of Onepu road was also productive of great trouble. These sections prior to subdivision, contained a largo amount of drift and were considerably disturbed during both southerly and northerly weather, while children playing about on the sandhills also disturbed the surface and prevented vegetable growth beofoming effective in keeping the sand in position. He understood that under the Act the Minister for Lands would have a echemo prepared and filed in the Magistrate’s Court for the purpose of controlling the drift and apportioning the cost amongst the several owners of the area. On the recommendation of tho engineer it was decided to request the Minister to have tho nuisance proclaimed. “The nuisance,” said the engineer, in recommending this course of action, “ is pronounced, being detrimental to private properties, and in addition the sand blocks the drains and sewers in this particular area.”