THE NEW ZEALAND COAST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9189, 8 September 1908, Page 4

THE NEW ZEALAND COAST.

The Surveyor-General (Mr T. Humphries) in his annual report, makes a reference to the movement of the New Zealand coast. Ho says, the importance of provision being made for its detection and determination at a later period has been brought under notice of late yeara. but up to the present n.i steps appear to have been taken to secure and permanently record reliable information as to exist ing conditions, so as to affurd data for the determination at some future time of the slope, elevation or subsidence of different parts of the coast line. This knowledge, apart from its scientific interest, is an important factor in the construction <?f marine works. As a preliminary to a more comprehensive scheme in the future in a wider distribution of tide gauges and mean sea level determinations, it is the intention of Mr Humphries to have the zeros of all existing tide gauges in the various parts of the Dominion carefully connected to permanent bench marks in secure positions on the shore, which can be effected at a very small cost.