Resident Wants Action On Air Pollution

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31140, 17 August 1966, Page 24

Resident Wants Action On Air Pollution

A St. Albans resident, Mr Desmond McDonald, of Colombo street, hopes that the Christchurch City Council will implement forceful measures to deal with air pollution. He complained strongly about damage to his house which he claimed had been caused by smoke or fumes from a nearby chimney. Mr McDonald had his house painted white last February but much of it is now a smudgy off-white with thousands of oily spots each about the size of a threepence.

Mr McDonald said he was more concerned about air pollution than in blaming anyone in particular for the damage to his house.

He pointed to a doublestorey block of flats across the road where the paint on the weatherboards was “hanging off.”

Mrs McDonald said she could not leave windows open when the nearby furnace was alight because the smell of the fumes and the soot was overpowering.

A young man working at the furnace said it was not lit more than once a week. It was operated only at night. A spokesman for the Clean Air Society (Mr P. V. Neary) said he would arrange to have samples of the spots on Mr McDonald’s house analysed to establish what they were.