REDCLIFFS SEA WALL
We who live by the wall are told it is public property and to mind our own business if we order people away from !t. Our landlords tell us it Is private property, owned by them. We watch ?hmu?h S< i S -«i? Oa . a j and B arden s ruined through high tides pouring through breaks and gates in the wall, and at the Causeway end the wall has caved ri j inand another break has occurred. What is going to happen there when a few more high tides rip away, at it? Must we still suffer through apathetic landlords, or is it a council or Government job?—Yours etc t .. WALL-EYED. June 19, 1946. ["Where the road front Is along the sea, the wall is ours, and it fs in good order," said the City Engineer (Mr E. Somers), when this letter was referred to him. “Where private property goes right to the sea, the wall is private property, and it is the responsibility of the owners to maintain it.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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174REDCLIFFS SEA WALL Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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