ST. CLAIR ESPLANADE: A SUGGESTION.
Sin,—Sodlti" . that tho Tramways Com■mittee of the City Council i«, as stated in your paper, considering, or is about to consider, the matter of improvements at St. Clair, including the restoration of the esplanade, I should like to offer an opinion I liavo for some time held—viz., that tho esplanade along the water front could best be restored in tho form of a wharf—piles driven, in and decking on top iit the same level ae the portion' of the esplanade still remaining. If the top were asphalted it would then not.'he unlike an ordinary road. Tho piles, would undoubtedly cause the sand to accumulate beneath, and" so help to raise the • level of the beach, or dressing boxes for sea bathers could be constructed underneath; and, in any case, tho wharf could not he washed away if properly constructed. The whole could probably bo finished before next summer. I make the suggestion for what it is worth.—l am, etc., H. S.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15100, 24 March 1911, Page 6
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