SAVE THE BEACH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 204, 17 November 1927, Page 15

SAVE THE BEACH

DEVONPORT PROTEST The residents of the big block of Devonport fronting King Edward Barade are suspicious that certain waterfront improvements contemplated by the Devonport Council will destroy a very popular beach about the head of Duder’s wharf. The council has proposed to build a stone wall with money from the Watson bequest, but at last evening’s meeting, Mr. W. D. Meiklejohn and 108 other residents presented a petition asking that the beach be not damaged. It had always, been much frequented by children; it could be used at all states of the tide; no fatality had ever occurred there, and the boatmen whose boats were moored out from the beach required it, as it was the only safe place from which to launch a dinghy .in easterly weather. The Mayor: We want to have the co-operation of the residents; probably they do not know what the council proposes. A nice stone wall and a flight of steps would be great improvements. The wall will not go outside the line of the abutment of the wharf. Mr. Massey: “We want to save all the beaches along there; they will be the only ones left.” It was decided that the council meet the petitioners at the beach and endeavour to secure agreement on a line of action.