FORESHORE PROTECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1921, Page 4

FORESHORE PROTECTION.

THE POSITION AT EAST END. ERECTION OF WALL URGED. . “That the Railway Department be approached with a view to the department co-operating with the council in the protection of the foreshore from the end of the present railway protection to the Henui River.” The above was the text of a motion carried by the New Plymouth Borough Council last night. The council was in receipt of a resolution passed at a combined meeting of the East End and Fitzroy Committees asking that, failing the council being able to construct permanent protection works to save the pavilion, the building be removed on to the freehold piece of ground adjacent to the Henui bridge. A deputation consisting of Messrs. A. R. Davis and W. L. Hughes waited on the meeting to urge the views of the East End Committee. Mr. Davis said his committee desired the council to do their utmost to erect a wall. They had gone into the matter carefully, and found that the cost of shifting the pavilion would be about £950. They had also secured an estimate of £795 as the cost of erecting a four-chain protective wall. The committee favored the latter course, and believed they could get a number of voluntary contributions to the cost. The combined committees favored the wall as the first course, and the shifting of the building as the alternative. The Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) said they first had to find out whether the pavilion could be shifted at all. As the engineer was looking into the matter the council would have to defer action in the meantime.

Mr. W. Rumball suggested that the Railway Department be approached, as he thought they should be prepared to cooperate with the council in the work, as railway property was also endangered. The resolution on the above lines was then carried.