ST. CLAIR BATHS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21244, 27 January 1931, Page 6

ST. CLAIR BATHS.

TO THE EDITOR. v Sir, —Your report of the last meeting of the City Council, particularly with reference to the controversy in connection with the filling of the baths with material partly from the quarry, makes interesting reading, ■ and also furnished food for thought regarding the action of the sea currents, and the formation of sea beaches. Hut why call in a geologist to attempt to prove that only 10 per cent, of the stone scooped from, the baths came from the quarry workings? To my mind it only proves that Or Mitchell has a good case. I would respectfully suggest that, although Professor Benson may be right in regard to the percentage, his report on that surmise alone carries no weight except as showing that the quarry is partly responsible for the damage. The main point to consider is the amount of travelling material which has to find room on the edge of the sea banks sluiced out by the current, and if a very large quantity of new material is emptied into the current race, it will displace the ordinary shingle and >, stones which naturally must find a new lodgment, which in this case ,is in the baths and their vicinity. Why split straws?—l am, etc., 1 Beach Comber. Musselburgh Rise, January 22.