Smog

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28937, 3 July 1959, Page 3

Smog

Su’.—lf “Clean Air” refers to the Christchurch papers published in the second week of February he will locate a Press Association, message from Britain or B, ported that jn one week, at that time, out of 428 deaths in Birmingham. 107—equivalent to 25 per cent.—had died of respiratory diseases, with the suggestion that smog was a substantial contributing factor. It is certain that the lives of many Christchurch citizens will be shortened if prompt action is not taken to eliminate smog.—Yours, etc., CASHMERE. July 2, 1959.

Sir, —What goes up comes down, if not always in the same place. The city smoke generated over-night at one time was cleared away by morning through the beneficent action of plants and many trees, and surrounding fields, or gently dispersed and wafted inoffensively away. Today, instead of salt tang from the east and tussocky odours from the south, sickly chemicals or biting acids load the air. The eye-watering mixture may descend to engulf the airport or remain hugging the ground and smothering the city till the Cathedral spire alone emerges. Do the authorities notice it? Will it empty the decaying centre even more rapidly while creeping up the hills?—Yours, etc., EXPERT ADVICE. July 2, 1959.