DRIFTING SAND MENACE.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 December 1919, Page 3

DRIFTING SAND MENACE.

The following communication Las been received by Mr N. W. Rimmer, chairman of directors of the Kaipara Dairy Factory, from Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister for Justice :—

" Referring to remarks you and others made at a deputation Avhich recently interviewed me in Helensville re sand drift, the Minister of Lands, to whom I referred the representations made, replied that it was proposed to expend two sums of £500 each for establishing nurseries for the growing of marram grass and other sand-loving plants. One sum is to be spent on the western side of Whangarei harbour, and the other on the sand areas of Kaipara. It has also been decided that the assistant director of forestry visit the Dutch and French sand dunes before coming on to New Zealand, for the purpose of studying the most successful method of sand reclamation."