DRIFTING SAND.
Dr Cockayne's important investigations on drifting sand on the coast have commenced at Bulls, states the "Rangitikei Advocate." He will examine all the sand dunes aloi.g the coast to the Rangitikei River, and will work down to the mouth of the Manawatu. After reaching Foxton he will then pay attention to the sand dunes further north. It is estimated that, about 19,200 acres of land in the Wellington district alone are threatened by the sand danger. Most oi' it lies along the narrow strip of country between Paekakariki and Patea. It comprises, roughly, about 56,650 acres of Crown lands uijder lease, and 8,700 of Native lands. The encroachment is fortunately slow, and in an irregular and spasmodic way the owners of the valuable land inshore have endeavoured to meet the danger by planting marrom grass, lupin, and ice plant, but something more is evidently required, for the slow growth of the evil does not make it any the less formidable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3073, 18 December 1908, Page 4
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162DRIFTING SAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3073, 18 December 1908, Page 4
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