MIDGES AT MANGERE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30310, 10 December 1963, Page 16

MIDGES AT MANGERE

P.M.’s Promise Honoured (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 9. The order of reference for the commission of inquiry into the midge and objectionable smell outbreaks in the Auckland area has been decided. The membership on the commission is now being considered and full details will be announced when it is completed. “These measures will honour my recent promise to the residents of Mangere to hold an inquiry into the problems,” the Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) said today. In the meantime the Auckland Drainage Board was undertaking some new measures aimed at the immediate alleviation of the problems and the assistantdirector of public health engineering of the Department of Health would go to Auckland tomorrow to discuss these measures, he said. A Liquid Asset Though he had only intended to make a short trip overseas when he left New Zealand, it had turned out to be 14 years until he had returned home recently, the Rev. T. J. Raphel said at the Canterbury Travel Club’s Christmas party last evening. When he returned, he had brought four immigrants from Britain w’ith him, he said. “But of course the youngest, the baby, is still rather a liquid asset,” he said amid laughter.