Pollution move
Copies of a letter deploring the polluted state of the Waimakariri River will be forwarded by the Waimairi County Council to the Minister of Works (Mr Allen), the North Canterbury Catchment Board, and the Christchurch Drainage Board. The council last evening decided to take this action on the recommendation of the works and reserves committee.
The committee reported receiving a letter from the Kainga Settlers’ Association on pollution. The letter said that at the association’s annual meeting, a resolution was passed deploring the state of the river from the traffic bridge to the mouth, with particular emphasis on the part of the river opposite Stewart’s Gully, where effluvia and sludge were at their worst. The association was concerned not only because of the danger to health, but because if the pollution were allowed to continue, the river would soon be a dead one, and fishing, swimming and shooting would be things of the past
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32612, 21 May 1971, Page 1
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156Pollution move Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32612, 21 May 1971, Page 1
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