Effect of High Seas at Sumner

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 5

Effect of High Seas at Sumner

The effect of the sea on the sand dunes above the beach at Sumner could be seen towards high tide level at about 2 p.m. yesterday, when the force of the waves broke large slices of sand from the banks. The waves were most noticeable from the end of the sea wall at Euston street to the Surf and Life-Saving Club’s pavilion. The end of this wall has been exposed and the sea is already some feet behind this protected part of the beach at high tide on the unprotected portion, and has left at least one post of the manuka scrub fence hanging in the air. The women’s shelter is near the danger line. The staff of the City Council has commenced the filling-up of the washed-out area in front of the pavilion with rock from Clifton Bay, but another section of the light stone wall on the north-west side of the club’s enclosure has collapsed recently. Guadalcanar Base Closed

Three years and 10 months after American Marines assaulted Japanese positions in the Solomons, the United States Army base at Guadalcanal has been closed. Colonel Robert G. H|hvie, the last army commander on the island, said in Auckland that the base was closed last week, 25 men being left at Henderson field to maintain the airstrip. Miles nf roadway and dumps of petrol and equipment have been destroyed or left in the jungle. All piers on the island have been dismantled. Colonel Howie said he thought the British Administration would maintain some of the roads, as before the war communications on the island were very poor. The last remaining United States Army base in the south Pacific, that at Noumea, New Caledonia, will be closed on July 15. A ship will transport about 1400 men, the majority of the garrison, to the United States, on June 20. (P.A.)