ST. CAIR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8587, 31 August 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

ST. CAIR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —I see the Caversham borough are again going to improve St. Clair, and have got a grant of 20 acres of foreshore for that purpose. A year ago, in their attempt to make a parade, they constructed a wall, creating a scour which washed away the sand from and debtroyed what, a few years agß, was the most sheltered little beach near St. Clair; and where except in very rough weather and very high tide?, children could always find dry sand to play on, even at high water. Thare is no dry sand there now, and what sand is left is more often covered with water than not. This scour has lowered the permanent level of the beach at this point some feet, and besides washing down the wall the borough built, the foundation of whbh was laid on sand, has attacked and destroyed a large portion of the sandhills near the St. Clair tram terminus; and a considerable area of what used to be firm sand to the north ia now scarcely passable, by reason of stones ecattered over it from the ruined wall. Stones from this wall and iebris from the destroyed sandhills can ba traced aloug the beach nearly 05 far as the St. Kilda tram terminus. A work more destructiva to St. Clair than the wall built a year ago could not havo been conceived and carried out by man, and it is to be hoped that the Caversham. councillors will not ba allowed to carry out any more schemes for the improvement of St. Clair, unless under the supervision of a Government-appointed competent engineer.— l am, &c,

August 29.

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