PROTECTION AT SUMNER

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 9

PROTECTION AT SUMNER

Address To Residents’ Association Members of the Sumner Residents’ Association were addressed last evening by Mr W. H. Scott, of the City Engineer’s staff, on the proposed protection plan, as he visualised it, for the Sumner coastline. Mr Scott discussed matters which he published in a report in 1955. It was not an official view at this stage which the council could present, he said. During the presentation of the annual report- of the association, the meeting was told that efforts had been made to have the lifeboat housed so as to provide access to the open sea at all. times. “Representation has been made to the Minister of Marine (who at that time was Mr J. K. McAlpine) to obtain up-to-date information. Further approaches have been made to the Christchurch City Council by both this association and the Sumner Lifeboat Institute. “The latest information from the institute is that it is hopeful that some action will be taken during this year,” the report said The report also said that an assurance had been given by the Christchurch City Council that street lighting similar to that existing in : Ferry road would be continued through Sumner to the junction of Wakefield avenue and Evans Pass road. It was expected that the work would be started by August of this year. Officers elected were:—Patron, Dr. P. C. Fenwick; president, Mr G. F. Allen; vice-president, Mr R. C. Neville; treasurer, Mr J. W. Watson; secretary, Mr D. H. Wilson; assistant-secretary, Mrs D. H. Wilson; committee, Mrs L. E. Smith, Messrs A. L. B. Ross, A. B. Grigg, H. N. Buttle, W. De Their, and D. J. Lyons.