SEA INVASION AT BEACH FEARED.
PROTECTIVE WORKS TO BE CARRIED OUT. At yesterday’s meeting of the Foxton Harbour Board, Mr McMurray reported that the sea was only within a few inches of breaking through the sand dunes on the ocean beach near the road, and invading the old river bed. If this happened it would mean the complete isolation of the Point and the loss to the Board of many valuable building sections. Mr Barber said that the menace could easily be overcome by dragging the drift wood on the beach into a line and so forming a break wind that would divert the drifting sand and reclaim the low-lying portion. The road out on to the ocean beach would have to be raised and clayed for this purpose in order that the sand would blow over it.
The Chairman undertook to organise a. working ‘‘bee” during the summer holidays and have this work put in hand.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3569, 30 November 1926, Page 3
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157SEA INVASION AT BEACH FEARED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3569, 30 November 1926, Page 3
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