Rubbish Fires
Sir,—"Fingers Crossed" asks about living with the “unpleasantness” of neighbours’ rubbish burnings in outdoor incinerators. What constitutes an incinerator: an old oil drum without a funnel to carry smoke into any air current above window, door, or neighbour roof level or a properly-constructed arrangement which does not smoulder sickeningly all day filling an acre with acrid fumes, causing not only unpleasantness, but bronchitis and eye trouble from continued inflammation and irritation? Trade waste cartons,’ rags, etc., contain substances analysed in America as poisons when burning releases their fumes. Is it not time such obsolete methods of disposal were eliminated in Christchurch for smog prevention and life saving?— Yours, etc., UP-TO-DATE. October 29. 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30275, 30 October 1963, Page 3
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