POISONED CARROTS
Pieces Near Road (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, July 22. A Greymouth businessman who travels frequently on the OtirS Gorge route between West Coast and Canterbury, has expressed grave concern at the discovery of a number of pieces of carrot which he found in the area between Wainihinihi and Taipo.
He said the carrots had been impregnated with 1080 poison and dropped bv the Forest Service in high country some two miles from the main highway. The pieces had obviously been washed down rain-swollen creeks and deposited near bridges. Some pieces of carrots had actually been picked up on the roadway.
The businessman’s concern was that there was a grave danger to children who might pick up a piece of this carrot and eat it. He thought the matter should be given publicity so parents could warn their children. He said that people travelling by road from Canterbury often stopped beside a creek to boil the billy, and it was in cases such as this that children were exposed to the danger of the pieces of carrot.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 14
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