ERADICATION OF HYDATIDS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28911, 3 June 1959, Page 16

ERADICATION OF HYDATIDS

Lyttelton Council’s Support

The Lyttelton Borough Council decided last evening to adopt the recommendation of a sub-commit-tee which attended a conference of the local bodies of the Banks Peninsula area on hydatids control, that the bodies represented engage a qualified hydatid control officer. In its report, the sub-com-mittee said that of 1425 sheep killed at the Lyttelton abattoir from January 25 to February 26, 979 had livers infected with hydatid cysts.

The problem of property owners whose properties would be affected by the commencement of the tunnel road was the subject of a letter from Mr N. E. Kirk, M.P. It appeared, said Mr Kirk, that the Road Tunnel Authority could not at this stage, forecast the exact compensation that could be paid, but he had been assured that the settlement would be as generous as possible. The council received the letter. Refuse Collection It was decided that the extension of the council’s refuse collection to include Church Bay and Charteris Bay, as requested by the Mount Herbert County Council would have to be done on a separate day, and not on the day on which refuse was collected from Diamond Harbour. On the motion of Cr. A. R. Champion, the Town Clerk (Mr J. Thompson) was instructed to place the cost of the proposed collection before the Mount Herbert County Council.

Complaining that inconvenience had been caused to a number ot intending train passengers on Anzac Day by the curtailment of the train service on the Lyttelton line, the council recently wrote to the District Traffic Manager of Railways to say that the train service on Anzac Day afternoon was inadequate.

In a reply received by the council last evening the traffic manager said that it had always been the policy of the department to observe the day as sacred and to curtail and cancel train services throughout the country. Full publicity had been given to the curtailment of the service on the Lyttelton line, both by advertisements in the Christchurch newspapers and by notices displayed on railway stations. It was regretted, the letter said, that some Intending passengers were unaware of the curtailment, and in consequence, had to travel by taxi.