Sf a J. H. MAIDEN. 
During the year 1887, Mr. H. Czerwonka an engineer of 
the Public Works Department, set to work to carry out 
the process of reclamation, his operations consisting of 
cutting down, trimming and sloping banks along the sea 
shore; removal of existing old fences; shifting of sand; 
erection of brush fences and of new boundary fences ; plant- 
ing with grass. From first to last a considerable sum has 
been spent on this work; numerous trees and shrubs, 
chiefly from the State Forest Nursery at Gosford, have 
been planted in the reclamation, while a resident gardener 
care-taker has always been maintained since the planting 
Staff has been withdrawn. 
2. Bondi.—Mr. G. R. Cowdery’s work in dealing with 
the sand nuisance in the vicinity of the tram terminus is 
referred to below. I would also draw attention to Mr. 
W. A. Smith’s paper on the “‘ Treatment of Drift-sand, as 
applied to the Bondi sand-dunes,”’ (read before the Sydney 
University Engineering Society, October 27th 1902). This 
recounts the valuable work which has been begun by cut- 
ting off the supply of sand from the ocean by Mr. Smith, 
the District Engineer. 
3. The sand-drift problem, a forestry rather than an 
engineering question.—In New South Wales works for the 
treatment of sand-drifts are carried out by engineers. In 
all other countries with which I am acquainted, they are 
looked upon as the legitimate work of the forester, and 
hence the planting work is given a prominence that it has 
never received with us so far. In France the work was 
expressly transferred from the Director General of “ Ponts 
et Chaussées ”’ in 1862, to the Forestry Department; in the 
United States the work is in the hands of the Department 
of Agriculture. Although the coastal sand-dune works in 
France are best known, those in Hngland, Holland, Ger- 
many, the United States and Canada are very important. 
