THE SEA-WALL AT KAIWARRA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 612, 15 September 1909, Page 5

THE SEA-WALL AT KAIWARRA.

An" alarming .'misconception , , has '-been caused in'.the'minds" of some• observers : of tho con■etruction of the.sea wall-at ; # Kaiwarra. The wall,has been built in.an,unfinished form from a small".bay ,, at Kaiwarra to the Thorndon Esplanade. '.'Uii tho other, side of .the small bay the; section , of. the wall from Petone, in its completed • state, reaches a point' nbout 180 ft.. further out to sea. The conclusion has been jumped at .by somo; persons that tho. two sections of the wall were meant, to'meet at this point, ibdt have- failed to do so,. and it will be necessnry to reconstruct the section nearer Wellington in a position \ further' from the (Shore, - ( or'." olse to have two walls running parallel to : each other from this, point. The explanation 'is; said to be, howevcrij that' the finished..line', to".Kaiwarrd from-,'Petone takes the'line of .what: is called .the greater reclamation, ;iwluch: it is'not intended, to , go on with at ■'tho:present : time. .Under thie* scheme the final sea-wall will go. all the way to. the Thorndon ■'■ Bathsj, enclosing-, a' much larger area..of what is at present.water. The.larger;work will cost a great.deal of time and moUey, and is being deferred on that account. Meanwhile a temporary sea-wall is being constructed to. the Thorndon .Esplanade, which; will allow of sufficient reclamation, to permit the duplication of .the railway lines, to Wellington. '. It is intended to construct the permanent section from Petone. to Kaiwarra.iso that it will overlap about four chainsJof the-small bay at Kaiwarra previously referred to. A convenient vantage point will: thus be provided, from which.to commence the.future extension of the main wall:to. the baths. The basis of that wall, it-is explained,'wiU bo'the stones now forming tho,temporary wall from Kaiwarra to the Esplanade, which it will rnerely be necessary to. shift further outwards'from their present position. -. ; It is. estimated that some seven' or" eight acres will- be reclaimed in the first instance between Kaiwarra and Thorndon up to tho temporary wall, ■ and that when the final- wall to tho Thorndon Baths is built, a further area of about twenty-acres will have been w.on from the sea. Host of the spoil that will be needed for-the larger' reclamation is available in'a hill just beyond-the Kaiwarra Hotel. ; ■'