Rubbish Fires
Sir,—May 1 ask if it is lawful to light rubbish fires on a Sunday? The smoke from such fires can at times smell reasonably pleasant (depending on the contents) but when such fires are lit and
coaxed to life by the addition of diesel oil or other such ingredients, the result can be quite overpowering and, to say the least, abominable. The thick acrid smoke billows across the fences and no matter how -one battent doors, windows, etc., it is im possible to stop these fume: from penetrating every cor ner of the house. Cannot on' be spared these atrocities fo at least one day of the week' —Yours, etc.. RESIDENT OF GLANDOVEY ROAD. May 6, 1964. [The chairman of the Wai mairi County Council (Mr J I. Colligan) replies: “It is not unlawful to light a fire on a Sunday, provided local authority by-laws concerning the lighting of fires in the open are complied with.”] [The Town Clerk of Christchurch (Mr C. S. Bowie) said: “Only a small section of Glandovey road is within the City Council’s district. The City Council by-law permits the
lighting of fires in the open between sunrise and sunset Ox. any day.”l
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 14
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