eged Pollution Of Harbour Discussed By Tauranga Board

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14711, 1 July 1948, Page 3

eged Pollution Of Harbour Discussed By Tauranga Board

is t Reclamation

agreement with view expressed by marine department

rn hp opinion of ills Tauranga Harbour Board is umded i nation of whether or not the dumping of sawdust i' Point to form a reclamation is causing pollution h rhour At the monthly meeting of the board, a he in the opinion of the board, sawdust was not canson I Y; ion of the harbour, was carried on a show of P® , v ,„n votinp* against this view. mcviuP- the motion, the chairman (Mr J. D. , +A t t0 ° confirm this view the' Marino Department 11 ) ?ndvised of a visit of a department official who D De "j complete satisfaction with the reclamachairman said he was told to advise the board to on with "the work with all confidence.

v,i pr t was introduced in a jS the Secretary for Marine r Smith). “You are aware, e ” he wrote, the Harbours Act, 19-a. every person who pollutes b our with sawdust liable to f £lO.

Department’s "View u e en informed lhat the irq are dumping this sawier an agreement with your ut that there is no provision r protecting the edges of Ih - tion by means of a Wall, lently a considerable amount PA is washed into the fwith each tide. » seems to it is advisable that a rock some such suitable erection Le provided to prevent the of the sawdust into the

[e board was the constituted L for the control nt the f the Secretary for Marine would be glad to learn what }e board proposed to take to I the pollution of the harboux dust continuing.

: “No Pollution” aintain that' there is no n” said the chairman, alter br had been read. Whoever hed should have approached ird he contended. Otncr was going into the harbour, Bn a handful of sawdust was [ed someone had seen nt to | the department. _ I chairman’s motion was jd by Mr J. Moore.

re was a possibility that tne ics’ Injector ha' 1 fe question, said Mr W. A. fell. That would be his duty. L would, therefore, be not behind the board’ back. If jestion had been raised in a f by the inspector, perhaps L from the board denying fete of affairs would be right I the considered opinion of t who knew his .lob. Sawheant death to fish, whije piatter meant food for fisn. I D. Donovan understood that tage the tide came up to and [portion of the sawdust.

! Chairman’s Reply [ply the chairman said the bcerned —Tuck and Watkins piled the sawdust too high | been told 'to keep the level

)onovan stated that the tide ip to and lapped the edges Reclamation. id not think the dumping of t in the area was of detrii the harbour, said Mr C. C. Ihton. Tuck and Watkins [pposed to fill the area, which |a bay, to a certain level.

if B. Maunder considered that [lution of the harbour by I presented a worse problem at by sawdust.