FORESHORE EROSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1921, Page 4

FORESHORE EROSION.

The question of protecting the foreshore at Kawaroa Park was the subject of a deputation that waited on the New Plymouth Borough Council ou Monday evening, when it was decided that the borough engineer should be asked to submit a plan and estimate of cost. The same question as regards the foreshore at the East End is expected to engage the attention of he Council in the near future. These two reserves are under the management of committees who practically act for the Council, but the area in each ease is limited, though the menace affects the whole of the foreshore from the breakwater to the Waiwakaiho. That the need exists for effective steps to be taken to prevent the loss of a very valuable sea frontage is generally recognised. The idea of reclaiming a patch here and there along the sea front and making it secure is at most only a clumsy and desperate expedient. The citizens should by this time be alive to the greatness of the asset the town possesses in having such an extent of sea front, though its protection must necessarily be a costly affair. Whatever is done in the way of protective work should form part of a comprehensive scheme for the whole front, and if a sufficient area is enclosed it should be largely reproductive in the future, if not in the present. It would seem wise and prudent, before any of this work is undertaken, to obtain a plan of the whole, so that the most urgent requirements could be met as finances allow, and the project extended year by year. It is to be hoped that this course will be adopted, so that eventually New Plymouth may possess one of the finest and most attractive sea fronts in the Dominion.