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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3887, 4 January 1884, Page 2

There is one question that we should like to ask Mr Wobor in connection with his shingle theory : How does he account for tho fact that, though tho Tuki Tuki mouth may be closed for weeks at a time, or even all through the summer months, tho shingle continues the even tenor of its way, accumulates on the beach, and gently travels up to Napier ? Does it not stand to reason that, when the source of supply is cut off, as it would be by the closing of tho river, there would bo a denudation of shingle? The wave action ever forces the shingle northward j how then is it, that, more than at any other tirno, when the river is closed tho shingle beach increases at its mouth on the seaward side P If tho river is the true source of the shingle supply would it not, follow that, on the mouth being closed, vast heaps of shingle would accumulate on the inner side of the beach ? But we know, and Mr Weber knows, it does not accumulate on 1 ! tho inner side of the beach when the river is closed. It accumulates on the outside, for the reason that the river current has ceased to be a disturbing clement. All this goes to prove that the shingle does not come from the Tuki Tuki river, and that Mr Weber's theory has not a leg to stand on.