CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11718, 19 July 1901, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

' > .— . ' ♦ I — i_ . - .. I We ue not responsible for the vitAnUna ex. preued by oornapondenta. . 11« writer 1 * name, as a guarantee of good frith, must be enalowd ta the letter.} CLIFF SUBSIDENCE. •JXO IVI BOITOL. : Sir,— A correspondent wan ted to know upon whom the reapbtisibilUv -would lie if a.»lip occurred and buried some 6n#. TBe following might throw some lighten the subject: For the pasl few yearn*. large quantity of general reserve* andi private property has been remoTedbythe sea from the foreshoro on th» beac* largely on account of the secretary oft** Harbour Board granting permits to eight. persons, owning 27 borses and 14 bullocks, employed in removing stones* boulders, gravel, and sand, using pick*, shovels, and large sledge hammers to break up hpulders and store too heavy to be lifted into the carts, which can be seen daily during fine -weather in front o£ B resorve. Over four- acres hat Jbeen carried away through abov«: caasea,. and rendered utterly useless^ a great k*»t» owners of prdperty, to add a HttU revenue to the fands of tbi " Harbour Boardy Surely something should be done to stop> this destrucMoo, of property.— r am, &e 9