Foster calls for Kaiti Beach clean-up as well

ON THE BEACH: Gisborne district councillor Larry Foster wants slash-clearing operations, such as those at Waikanae and Midway beaches, to also be done at Kaiti Beach. Picture by Liam Clayton

Don't forget about Kaiti Beach.

That is the message from Gisborne district councillor Larry Foster.

He told fellow councillors, sitting as the full council, that “a great job” was being done of the clean-up of woody debris at Waikanae and Midway beaches, but there was another beach that needed it — Kaiti.

“I was there a few weeks ago and you couldn’t even walk on the beach,” he said. “There was no sand. It was all (covered by) wood.”

A huge southerly swell had since pushed some of the wood up the beach but he wanted to see a similar job by crews, as had been done at Waikanae and Midway.

Cr Foster said he had been disheartened to see the beach in such a state.

No one was clearing it. It was an easy solution, he said. Push the debris further up the beach.