BEACH IMPROVEMENTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3522, 10 August 1926, Page 3

BEACH IMPROVEMENTS

At yesterday’s annual meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board a letter was received from Mr. A. E. Alsop, Manawatu Heads, thanking the Board for its assistance in obtaining a daily mail service at the Beach. —Received.

The Board’s local committee made the following recommendations :

(1) That in response to the Beach Committee’s appeal for a better tenure for sections at the beach, the Board favourably consider the request. It was decided to obtain an opinion from the Board’s solicitor as to whether the Board would be legally right in entering into agreement with the lessees, present or future, as to any extensionjif present leases, subject to re-valuation every 11 years.

(2) That the Board provide extra water supplies for the use of visitors to the beach. The local committee recommended that a 1200-gallon tank he erected at the Pilot’s residence to take the overflow and that the pilot have the tanks under lock and key.

The secretary was instructed to procure prices for galvanised iron and concrete tanks and for the sinking of an artesian well at the beach. • (3) That the Sanatorium road be repaired. It was decided to agree to the local committee’s suggestion that a tender for this work be obtained. At the conclusion of the meeting Board members motored, to the Beach to view the erosion which had taken place in front of Mi. Hart’s store caused by the surface water on the old river bed, making an outlet to the river past the swings. , , , The pilot was instructed to have the water diverted higher up immediately.