HOKITIKA ALARMED.
PROTECTION OF SEA FRQMT REQUIRED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hokitikfl, Yesterday. > The position on the sea front continues to cause considerable alarm. The spring tides have bce» remarkably smooth, otherwise the disaster of a fortnight ago would have been repeated with .morse results./ iTbe sea continues to encroach on, Reve.ll street daily, and during the last few tides considerable erosion has taken place, Pow-watcr Mark being upwards of 00 feet closer inshore and very deep water along the Bea front. The protective works being carried on by the Public Works Department comprise driving a series of piles Bft apart straight to sea. These art; being planked partly. Very slow progress is being made; only about»2o piles have been driven, 10 to loft fqep. in the last ten days. Considerable/' comrcent has been made on the slow progress and the manner in which the danger is being grappled with. A borough official gives the opinion that unless more urgent steps are taken to secure the sea front, if rough .feather eventuates greater damage is bound to be caused.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 8
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178HOKITIKA ALARMED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 8
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