HARBOUR SLIPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 5

HARBOUR SLIPS

10 THE EDITOB Sir, —I notice in your issue of Friday last that the engineer for the Otago Harbour Board is opposed to spoil from slips being thrown over the harbour wall and that he has been assured by the engineer of the Public Works Department that no more spoil will be thrown over the sea wall than is absolutely necessary to clear the road for traffic. Now, Sir, this opens up a question that is often spoken of by the people who live on the harbourside and know exactly what happens when slips occur there. The natural place for all this good filling-in material is in the harbour, where it could be utilised. Instead of that, this stuff has for years and years, to my knowledge, been carted long distances in the direction of Portobello. or else has been carted up steep gradients to widen some roads—often quite unnecessary work —or to fill up some gully in some one’s back yard. My opinion is that two small bays should be constructed within stone walls and prepared as dumps for this slip material that will always be coming down on this road. One of these bays could be built at or near Macandrew Bay and the other one at Grassy Point or Broad Bay. When they were filled up that could be beautified and laid out as turning or resting places for motor cars. I would just liTce to recommend this scheme to the Macandrew Bay Ratepayers’ Association, a real live body, and express the hope that it will bring the matter up at one of its meetings.—l am, etc., „ „ May 28. Modern, Tliats Me.