Pooh!
“Smell." “bad smell.” “strong smell,” appeared regularly on the pad of the Christchurch Drainage Board’s telephone operator last month as calls complaining of smells from the sewage - treatment works were recorded. But the record was enlivened by one of the eight complaints on November 19. “By hell, it’s high this morning,” the log presented to the board last evening read for a 4.40 a.m. call from a Shortland Street
man. Other callers described the smell as nauseating, shocking, horrible, vile, the worst for 14 years and so bad it could be cut with a knife. The construction and treatment works committee said that between November 19 and November 21 a drive chain in the No. 2 secondary tank broke and there was a rise in sludge at a time when the No. 3 secondary tank could not be used.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31865, 18 December 1968, Page 20
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