Smog
Sir, —I have been reading this correspondence with increasing enjoyment, but am still waiting to be told the simple formula which will banish fogs from our city and which the City Council should immediately implement. I can assure “Asthma” that Christchurch will have to “procrastinate” over taking suitable measures for a few centuries before reaching London’s deathdealing conditions, as that city has about four times New Zealand’s population and about 10 times its industrial enterprises. It is also in another hemisphere where fogs have been a'climatic phenomenon for some thousands of years. The linking of “smog” reduction with the joys of watching television in a centrally heated atmosphere is picturesque if a trifle irrelevant, but it is nice to think of the “Socialist countries,” as envisaged by W. J. Collins revelling in these amenities. Perhaps somebody can tell me how our hospitals are to rid themselves of waste products except by incineration.—Yours, etc, CARACTACUS. July 21, 1960.
Sir,—lmpressed by , reports of progressiveness and excellent climate, I settled in Christchurch. What do I find? A superb winter. Crisp frosts, glorious days. But I dread evening’s macabre outpouring of black smoke from almost every suburban chimney except mine. Has the corporation studied smoke problems overseas? Are the health authorities practising preventive medicine? Does the State connive at coal waste? Is it implementing fuel research findings? Does a progressive community use the most primitive, inefficient method? Seventy per cent, heat up the chimney. Who enslaves Christchurch women to pursuit of soot? How often is the buck passed? “Oh, my husband likes a fire.” Extended gas production providing smokeless gas and coke would eliminate fumes and rapid deterioration of paint, stone, furnishings, etc, and remove the stigma of a dirty, unattractive city, reminiscent of industrial areas of yesterday. Will no woman, or group of women, representing the community, crusade for this reform?—Yours, etc, NO TILLY SLOWBOY. July 21, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 3
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