ENGLISH SAND FOR ORIENTAL BAY
Attempt To Make North End Comfortable Soon tlmim will be sand from England on tlm Oriental .Bay beach. It is from the Bristol Channel-—fine, clean, sharp and still; sand, brought to Now- Zealand as slop's ballast. In all. 12.000 tons arc likely Io be available. It. hail to he disposed of ami Captain Tedder, marine siiporintendenl. New Zealand Shipping Company, eontacl.ed the mayor of AVellingfon. Mr. Appleton, to se(! if some use etmld be made of the sand rather than dump it, at the corporation tips.
Mr .Appleton consulted the city engineer, Mr. K. E. Luke, on tlm utilization of tlm sand on the norfhern end of Oriental Buy. This section is nnnoptilar Imc.'inse of its stony surface. If was decided with tlm eoneurroneo of Cr. K. 1 - Macalistcr. reserves eommitleo clinii'tnnn. to put. a bulldozer on Ibis mart of the beach Io clean tlm stvfaee. -That job Ims started. Then the sand Avill be denosited on the clenned-np area. 11 may stay nut or drift along to the city end of the beach —that remains to bo seen. But. the enormous quantity of sand is free of cost to tlm city. Tlm only expense is tlm handling cost and tlm bulldozing. Tlm eomfort.'iblo sunbathing nr I '.-! of Oriental Bay nitty be doubled at little costMr. Appleton has iirr.-mged for some sand to be made available to the Free Kindergarten
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 235, 1 July 1944, Page 8
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235ENGLISH SAND FOR ORIENTAL BAY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 235, 1 July 1944, Page 8
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