ORIENTAL BAY WALL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 8

ORIENTAL BAY WALL

WORK GOES FORWARD STEADILY,

Steady progress is once more being mado with the erection of the big proinenade retaining-wall in Oriental Bay. For some months during the winter this work had to be suspended wing to a shortage of suitable labour, but a gang has been got together now, and is' inaking (slow, but steady, progress. The wall has been erected to a point opposite Wilkinson's gardens, and another flight of steps leading down to the beach has been built opposite Graos Street. The boxing for the wall has been built for nnotheT eection on towards Thomas s Point, so that the bay should make a creditable showing by the end of the vear. As there is a good deal of filling to be done between the road and the wall at the present scene of the works, the full advantage of the new scheme will not be seen for a few months, but the completion of the scheme should make Oriental Bay the finest metropolitan marine parade in tho Dominion. It will be remembered that the plnns were strenuously . objected .to by a certain section of the residents of Oriental Bav, on the grounds that the erection of the wall so far out would deprive the children of the use of the beach in the south-west corner, and on that occasion it was stated that the beach would soon reform. This is proving to be the case. Indeed, the effect of the erection of tlie wall has been a considerable improvement in the beach throughout its sweep, and in time this improvement will be more marked.