NATURE MAKES WAY

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1935, Page 5

NATURE MAKES WAY

GOOD THING FROM A STORM. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the recent hurricane which swept Britain brought- an unexpected blessing to Christchurch, near Bournemouth. Fishermen and were delighted to find, after a week-end of storms, that as a result a new entrance to the harbour had been made. Hundreds of sailing-boats and motor-boats will now be saved a journey of a mile and a half to the sea. The old entrance may gradually close up and the long channel leading to it, which is known as the Run and is separated from the sea by a spit of sand nearly two miles long, may become a lagoon. It was through this barrier of sand that the breach, 30 yards wide and three feet deep, was made by the stormy seas and torrential rain, A small breach was made nineteen years ago, but was soon filled up with sand; this much larger one is likely to be permanent, for it is widened at every tide by the waters of the Stour and Avon rivers, and there is a strong current through the shorter outlet. It is believed that a harbour bar will be formed half a mile out at sea opposite the new entrance. - v ..