YOUR PEOTECTIVE WORKS.
(To the Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir, —Having visited Westport towards the end of last week, I was sorry to see the Bea encroaching so rapidly to the destruction of the town unless some remedy be devised. As Mr Kynnersley is coming from Nelson for that purpose, a plan that I have seen
carried out to advantage might not be out of place to suggest, viz., two or three rows of sapplings two feet apart, and those in the same row six inches apart, and put into the ground (a little below high water mark) a distance of eighteen inches, and partly cut at the level of the ground, so that the tide would lay them over; in this way they would collect sand and form a bank, as I have seen them protect railway banks in the old country. Hoping that some plan will be successful.—l am, &e., One Interested in the District. Deadman's Creek, May 3.
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 656, 10 May 1870, Page 2
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162YOUR PEOTECTIVE WORKS. Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 656, 10 May 1870, Page 2
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