Air Pollution
Sir, —The Education Board’s reply to my criticism of school chimneys drew attention to pollution regulations. It seems the school was designed before these regulations were passed, thus apparently absolving the board of any blame. I draw the board’s architect’s attention to the Smoke Restriction Regulations, 1964, gazetted 2J years before the Breezes road Intermediate School opened. This regulation makes it incumbent upon the board’s architects to take into account the size and design of chimneys. The interdepartmental (Government) power committee mentioned by the board is naturally going to insist on coal-fired furnaces to bum Government-owned coal. Christchurch citizens, troubled with foul-smelling coal smoke (in spite of the Ombudsman’s “whitewash” of smoke pollution), and especially those living near these schools, can report smoke nuisance under the regulations mentioned above. The onus is on the council to take action once complaints are lodged, and the council’s smoke inspector has the power to act accordingly.—Yours, etc., ANTI-POLLUTION. March 28, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31330, 29 March 1967, Page 12
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