EROSION OF BEACHES
'I | ' SUCCESSFUL ' REMEDY 1 .1 “7“ . DURBAN, June .22.—Alter years of fruitless effort to check, the eroisioni of Durban beach and restore the Wide sands which were oncei a popular attiiaction to holiday-makers from nil of South Africa; engineers at last' have found a successful remedy. Dredgers which ‘ffrck op sand in the Ray now tie upiat’iv' wllarf and pump theiit' loads through lotng iron pipes to the beach. After - operating- for only’ four months they have succeeded in! reclaiming about 2(1 acres of beach.
Two loads of sand are delivered a day,, and it is confidently anticipated by experts that Durban will soon recover every square inch of the beach it has lost —perhaps a great deal more.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 68, 10 August 1938, Page 4
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122EROSION OF BEACHES Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 68, 10 August 1938, Page 4
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