PENTAGRAM DESTROYED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 8

PENTAGRAM DESTROYED

(Received October 21. 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 21. The New Zealand racehorse, Penta gram, has been destroyed.

Scores of people visited the beaches yesterday, the Wafkanae proving a most popular resort. Sea bathing has already attained to a strong vogue, \and officials of the Beach Improvement (society are anticipating a record season. The retail price of eggs in Cisborne remains the same as last week, but merchants state that owing to the proximity of the show a rise of a few pence per dozen is to be expected. The present retail price is Is 6d per dozen.

Tho erosion of the sand at the foreshore, adjacent to the mouth of tho diversion cut, which aroused so much anxiety some months ago, and resulted in the building of tho foreshore wall for about 2COfC westward of tho diversion cut, lias not continued in the meantime. On the contrary, the sand has returned, and now deep drifts almost conceal the top of the wall built to protect the beach. Grass is beginning to take hold where the harbor board staff excavated and levelled off the sand dunes behind the foreshore wall, and the area seems to be consolidating well.

A tire has smouldered on the Waikanae beach during the past week, gradually consuming the matted debris that has lain on the foreshore .since the recent floods in the Waimata and Waipaoa rivers. Repeated attempts have been made to stifle it, but the heaping of sand on the smouldering rubbish has been ineffective, for though the fire has appeared several times to he extinguished, it has broken out again elsewhere in the. course of a few hours. Dining the week.it has travelled between the foreshore wall and the bathing pavilion, and has made a good clean-up of the debris which spoiled the. beach for sun-bathing. There is a danger of injury lo children, however, in

the existence of beds of hot embers., in one of -which a little girl burned her feet badly yesterday. Some warning should l be given to the public concerning this danger, which should be easily avoidable if made generally known among those who frequent the beach.