Ham And Air Pollution

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28836, 5 March 1959, Page 3

Ham And Air Pollution

Sir, —In recent weeks I have read many letters on air pollution. The university will, they consider, discharge its smog into the Ric-carton-Fendalton area. This I’am inclined to hold as being mistaken. A coal-burning boiler house of modern design, was manufactured overseas by the highest scientific skill. Taking into consideration that the smokestack is over 200 feet high, that over 300odd households, can, on a frosty winter night produce more smoke, soot and grime than any modern built, I do not believe in the nuisance. Remember it is an engineering university designed by engineers.—Yours, etc., N.F.G. March 3, 1959.

Sir, —If the claims of the Government and the Ministry of Works that the equipment to be installed in Ham will not be a smog or smoke or grit hazard are correct, are we to believe that all the anti-smog committees ...at are set up the world over are committees for the sake of being committees and have no reason for being in existence whatsoever? —Yours, etc., ANTI-SMOKE. March 3, 1959.

Sir, —The moaning campaign being carried on by the people of the north-western districts has exhausted my patience and caused my pen to start smoking. These are the very people who set up real smoke stacks in the poorer districts of Christchurch. It is quite aU right with them until their own district is affected. The poorer districts have no big noises or Batterbys or Johnstones to arrange something more congenial for their areas. It is quite clear from Mr Cornish’s report that there will be no smoke. The residents are more worried about the harm the sight of a smoke stack in their district will do to their position on the social ladder.— Yours, etc., SMOKE ’EM OUT. March 3, 1959.